Wes Stewart wrote:
> FWIW. I more or less successfully used the K3 for RTTY and a brief taste of
> PSK (too slow, like watching paint dry
Good Morning, Wes...
I think you'll be pleased with the SignaLink box. You are right
about BPSK31 -- it is a bit slow. My take on this is that people like to
fill the buffer and sit back to watch, and I know that some (perhaps
75%) of the users have trouble keeping up on the keyboard with the
transmit rate anyhow.
If you watch for it, you will find people (particularly the European
PSK crowd) who use PSK63 or even PSK125 or PSK250. I am a good typist,
and even so I find it takes care and attention just to keep up with
PSK63. The other modes are of course even faster.
If you're into watching paint dry, try one of the modes like Olivia
16/500. No sweat like when you break a pencil-lead copying CW at 40 wpm.
On the other hand, if you like the mystery of having signals come out of
nothing, like the Great Pumpkin rising from the Pumpkin Patch, the
Olivia modes are great.
There are lots of people (again many in the European digi-crowd) who
like RTTY. and nowadays it is noise-free (no coffee grinder in the
background, no paper tapes to load). I use fldigi and the SignaLink box
for all these modes, and it works out just fine. I have used it with my
ASUS 910 EEE toy computer and DigiPan...makes a very portable arrangement.
For an amusing variation, try a QSO using one of the Hellschreiber
modes...see
http://www.nonstopsystems.com/radio/frank_radio_hell.htm
and have fun! SignaLink does that, as well...
John Ragle -- W1ZI
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