[GreenKeys] MMTTY on Windoze-98

[John Lawson]

On Tue, 20 May 2008, Roy Morgan wrote:

> Hi, all,
>
> I have found in the storage area a Windoze 98 computer that seems to work. 
> It's the only Windows machine here, so I plan to set up MMTTY on it soon.
>
> I may be able to lash up at least a receiving setup.  The computer sits next 
> to a 75A-4 and that should do the job ok!  I'll feed the receiver with my 
> pitifully low-altitude multiple band dipole (approximate height 11 feet).


   Mind the video card, cables, and monitor - my first computer-based RTTY 
setup (running TrueTTY on a Win98 box) was utterly useless on 20M - 
because of the hash and noise put out by the video subsystem.

   Gounding the computer case to the station ground, and looping the VGA 
cable and monitor power cable thru a couple of large toroids cleaned it 
mostly up.

  Consider buying an el-cheapo 15" or 17" LCD VGA monitor from Wal-Mart or 
Amazon... they're much quieter since they have no high power scanning 
circuits, or that pesky beam of electrons waving all over the inside of 
the CRT, radiating lots of wide-spectral RF in the process...


   Cheers

John KB6SCO