[GreenKeys] Hal ST8000 modem

[COURYHOUSE at aol.com]

This is  interesting Jim - ...   I am   trying  to  find a download    page 
 for it..  that is a  safe one  any recommendations!?
 
 
 
In a message dated 7/30/2013 6:49:03 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
jhhaynes at earthlink.net writes:

On Mon,  29 Jul 2013, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:

> What do you consider the  ultimate software modem Jim???
>  
A one-time front-runner was  RITTY by K6STI.  He withdrew the product
because he was mad about  people pirating his software, and also because
it only runs under  DOS.  It has to run under DOS so it can take full
control of the  computer and sound card, with no interruptions.

Today, I suspect near  the top is cocoaModem by Kok Chen W7AY - but it
only runs on late Macintosh  machines.  Neck and neck with it is 2Tone,
by G3YYD.  But 2Tone  is not a standalone modem; it runs under a couple
of others that are out  there.

Then what I personally use is fldigi, because it does lots of  modes and
runs under Linux as well as Windows.  And is probably pretty  close to the
others in performance.

It's all rather academic,  because many of the newer hammy digital modes
implemented in software  outperform FSK RTTY by a lot.  That's why you
hear all those PSK31  signals all the time and RTTY is fairly rare anymore
except for contests  and DX.  My theory is that RTTY is preferred for
those because of the  fast turnaround, and that the error rate is less
important, because if what  you see looks like what you want to see you
call it  good.
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