RE: Useless Information-Just for fun - 2

Yes VM, I could if I was so inclined, but Iwant the easy life now.

Signman, I spent most of yesterday afternoon playing with the receiver you gave me.
I have connected it to a laptop, with some decoding software, using an audio cable and can now receive RTTY (Radio Teletype) messages on the laptop.
I wasn't at all succesful until I got back in last night, switched it all on and straight away I was getting weather reports.
I wanted to do this for years.
VM

That will come in handy for the open all hours thread Volty

Oh yes, weather, the main topic.

That would be really useless information

Excuse my ignorance, but what is radio teletype? Is it dot dot dot dash dash dash etc ?

RTTY is transmitted using two tones in a mark/space arrangement, the same way as analogue computer modems do.
Modems are used to encode and decode the datastream when teleprinters are talking to each other.
Computers can do the same job, in my case my sound card receives the tones and software demodulates them into text.
A system call SYNOP transmits mostly numbers, these are converted by software into the text of weather reports.

I've just left two lovely girls in the pub to come home to cottage pie and blackcurrant and custard.

Posted by Voltman

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RTTY is transmitted using two tones in a mark/space arrangement, the same way as analogue computer modems do.
Modems are used to encode and decode the datastream when teleprinters are talking to each other.
Computers can do the same job, in my case my sound card receives the tones and software demodulates them into text.
A system call SYNOP transmits mostly numbers, these are converted by software into the text of weather reports.

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I thought that's how it worked.

Posted by signman

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I've just left two lovely girls in the pub to come home to cottage pie and blackcurrant and custard.

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It depends on which of the two are more enjoyable. Girls with custard sounds good.

VM, glad you are enjoying the receiver.

Has this got to be the most useless invention ever.

What is it. Is it a waste bin?

Mike it's to stop rain getting in your wellies when you put them outside, £6.95.,
what's wrong with a plastic bag.

If you left you wellies and that contraption outside your house here, they would be both gone before you could turn your back.

Phil