AW: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity - New tests

2010-01-23 Thread Siegfried Jackstien
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:digitalra...@yahoogroups.com] Im Auftrag von Wes Cosand Gesendet: Samstag, 23. Januar 2010 02:00 An: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Betreff: Re: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity - New tests On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Patrick Lindecker wrote

Re: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity - New tests

2010-01-22 Thread Wes Cosand
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Patrick Lindecker wrote: > > > Hello Wes, > > I saw the test file. It is nice except the long suite of figures, which > could be a cause of possible systematic failure (with many errors following > a first error) . Better would be to keep only the call signs which

Re: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity - New tests

2010-01-22 Thread Patrick Lindecker
] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity - New tests Patrick, thank you for your kind note. I discovered, as you have known for a long time, that testing RTTY is not easy because of random figures/letters shifts. As you said, a single inappropriate shift can mess up a lot of characters! That

Re: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity - New tests

2010-01-22 Thread Wes Cosand
Patrick, thank you for your kind note. I discovered, as you have known for a long time, that testing RTTY is not easy because of random figures/letters shifts. As you said, a single inappropriate shift can mess up a lot of characters! That makes the statistics difficult. My test text file is at

[digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity - New tests

2010-01-22 Thread Patrick Lindecker
) at about -5.5 dB. 73 Patrick - Original Message - From: Wes Cosand To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:05 AM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Dave AA6YQ

Re: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity

2010-01-20 Thread Wes Cosand
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Dave AA6YQ wrote: > > > Thanks Wes. > > > > WinWarbler uses MMTTY as its RTTY engine; thus MMTTY can be configured to > achieve the same performance as that shown for WinWarbler. > Yes, I certainly did not mean to construct a test to show MMTTY at a disadvantage.

RE: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity

2010-01-20 Thread Dave AA6YQ
: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 7:02 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity Recently during a QSO a ham said the software I was using was not very sensitive. I decided I needed to collect some data to make an informed decision about which

Re: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity

2010-01-20 Thread Wes Cosand
> Thanks for sharing your interesting experiment. It is somewhat puzzling > that you convert the 8KHz audio to 11025Hz and pipe it to the programs > via Virtual cable, which may involve another two conversions (e.g. to > 44.1KHz and from that to whatever rate the program samples at, depending > on

Re: [digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity

2010-01-20 Thread Stelios Bounanos
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:01:32 -0500, Wes Cosand > said: > Recently during a QSO a ham said the software I was using was not very > sensitive. I decided I needed to collect some data to make an informed > decision about which software I should be using. I ran several of the RTTY > soft

[digitalradio] Comparison of RTTY software sensitivity

2010-01-20 Thread Wes Cosand
Recently during a QSO a ham said the software I was using was not very sensitive. I decided I needed to collect some data to make an informed decision about which software I should be using. I ran several of the RTTY software packages through the AWGN function of PathSim and used RttyCompare to c