On Monday 20 February 2006 08:40, KV9U wrote: > Bonnie, > > > What I would like to see are some practical bandplans that have a > recommended spot frequency for digital modes. We do have that by default > now on 20 meters for the .070 PSK31, and similar areas on 40 and 80 > meters. The RTTY operation is often about 10 KHz higher as you point > out. But except for contesting, RTTY is not as popular anymore as other > digital modes and probably will drop off even more as older hams become SK. >
I'd be careful about predicting the demise of RTTY. RTTY using FSK has been provided in almost 3 generations of SSB rigs in one fashion or another requiring very simple interfaces to use. I still have an old laptop serial ascii terminal along with a pk-232mbx set up for RTTY with any rig that has fsk capability. I don't need any fancy switching setup to use a microphone and computer sound card - just a matching accessory plug for the transceiver, an RTTY position to change to, and a headphone plug to get audio for the pk-232. tim ab0wr Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
