[R-390] More dweedle-dweedle

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This leads to the question- has anyone seen or tried Hoka Code? That is
supposed to be a fantastic decoding program. I think it deciphers the
correct settings for baud, stop bits, parity, etc. That reminds me of the
old Bulletin Boards where you had to set all of this manually on 300 baud
modems. You had to know all of those settings in advance or experiment. I
know that Hoka Code is more reasonable approach when compared to the
Universal decoder units costing thousands of $$$.

Has anyone heard from a Hoka Code user? Has anyone seen or heard about the
Universal dedicated decoder units?


Barry


> Had marginal success last night copying RTTY.  I managed to catch the tail-end
> of a ham QSO, but was not successful with much else.  40M propagation wasn't
> particularly good from the west coast last night so I didn't copy WC2XPF (lots
> of QRN).  I missed ARRL's ham broadcast, but will try again tonight.
> 
> There are lots of other RTTY signals out there, but I don't seem to be able to
> get much out of them.  For example, there is a strong station around 10,130
> kc, but I couldn't make much out of it.  According to the display, it appeared
> to be an 850 cps shift, but I could not get intelligible copy.  There are so
> many variables here: 5-bit, 6-bit, 7-bit, 8-bit, number of stop bits, baud
> rate, parity, etc.  I tried lots of combinations with no luck.  Of course, it
> could be it was sending encrypted -- don't know.
> 
> Any suggestions on some common modes other than the "standard" ham
> configuration of 45.45 baud, 170 cps shift?  Is it possible from the relative
> sound of the signal to make a guess at the baudrate?  Do many common baudrates
> share a common data format (databits, stopbits, parity)?  It doesn't seem this
> should be so difficult.
> 
> Of course, I used the R390A for some of my attempts last night so this is "on
> topic".  :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Barry(III) - N4BUQ