[GreenKeys] MMTTY on Windoze-98

[Don Robert House]

An excellent reminder.  On my old Mac G3 I replaced the CRT with the  
15 inch LCD  and am having much better results.

Thanks John,

Don
K9TTY


On 20 May 2008, at 5:44 PM, John Lawson wrote:



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

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