[sdiy] Information Content of Signals

[Magnus Danielson]

From: Rainer Buchty <buchty at cs.tum.edu>
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Information Content of Signals
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 20:52:24 +0200 (CEST)

> > I believe that very few amateur radio operators use Baudot since maybe
> > 1977.
> 
> I think that's a misbelief. Plain 45 Baud Baudot RTTY was still very
> common 10 years ago when I was doing short wave radio last time. At least
> way more than 100 Baud ASCII or AMTOR. (Actually, the only thing I really
> used my ASR-33 ASCII teletyper for was to load/store programs for my AIM65
> and ZX81 :)

ZZZAAAPPP!!!

ZX81 - I never had any of those Zinclair boxes. I was grown up on a C64 and
then the PC entered the house. Would be fun to fiddle around with Zinclairs
and the likes nowdays... ;O)

> Things of course may have changed nowadays as nifty little DSP boxes like
> the PTC-II took over, first they literally heard the grass growing
> (rendering the good old RTTY converters useless cause there's just no way
> to give those the same sharp ears) and later allowing fancy stuff like
> PSK31 and such.
> 
> Really spoiled the hobby, IMO. Buy two boxes, connect them and you're set.
> Just like buying 'ham spirit' bottled.

Any real ham should try to acomplish the same thing in a tubes only solution
;O)

> Rainer (DL1GRA)

So we got hams online here... ;O)

Cheers,
Magnus - no ham since I'm not much of a pig, so no call signal