Sony 2010 for decoding digital signals
 

I really like my Sony 2010, even for SSB utilities. The 100 Hz resolution
seems to work well for about 98% of the SSB voice signals, but I wonder if
anyone has had any luck copying CW, RTTY, FAX, NAVTEX with a decoder?

Frank

Frank Bals wrote:
I really like my Sony 2010, even for SSB utilities. The 100 Hz
resolution
seems to work well for about 98% of the SSB voice signals, but I
wonder if
anyone has had any luck copying CW, RTTY, FAX, NAVTEX with a decoder?

Frank

I use a Kenwood R2000 with 50Hz tuning resolution.
Worked great for RTTY, both baudot and ASCII, and
for HF AX25. I have used severl different home brew
RTTY demods and a MFJ1278. I had very good results
on HF FA, mainly weather, with the JV?FAX program.
The only thing that might bite you is narrow, 200Hz,
shift. A lot of hams run 170HZ and that was a little
dicey in bad band conditions.
More important then super fine, 10Hz or better tunning,
is that the reciever not drift. Drift will get you chasing
your tail real fast.
CW, unless machine sent, is hard to get above ~70%
decode accuracy. Too many hams have lousy "fists" that
make machine decoding, or even ear decdoing, and interesting
proposition. Perhaps the decoders have improved.
Good luck.
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"Frank Bals" wrote in message
...
I really like my Sony 2010, even for SSB utilities. The 100 Hz resolution
seems to work well for about 98% of the SSB voice signals, but I wonder if
anyone has had any luck copying CW, RTTY, FAX, NAVTEX with a decoder?

Here's a photo of me decoding TASS RTTY with a Sony ICF 2001D and a
Commodore 64 in 1988. The frequency shift was possible using the on screen
display. The interface pc board had an on board CW filter.

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/monitor.jpg


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Simon Mason
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East Yorkshire.
53°44'N 0°26'W
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

Simon Mason wrote:

"Frank Bals" wrote in message
...
I really like my Sony 2010, even for SSB utilities. The 100 Hz resolution
seems to work well for about 98% of the SSB voice signals, but I wonder if
anyone has had any luck copying CW, RTTY, FAX, NAVTEX with a decoder?

Here's a photo of me decoding TASS RTTY with a Sony ICF 2001D and a
Commodore 64 in 1988. The frequency shift was possible using the on screen
display. The interface pc board had an on board CW filter.

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/monitor.jpg

Good old TASS RTTY! I had an M6000 decoder years ago and monitored them via
Cuba.

Back when there were still a few news services using SW.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Good old TASS RTTY! I had an M6000 decoder years ago and monitored them
via
Cuba.

Back when there were still a few news services using SW.

It was after decoding Soviet ship to shore messages in RTTY that I saw that
the Russians were not the evil people our leaders used to make out. They
were very touching messages to granddad Oleg and little Misha.

--
Simon M.

In article , dxAce
wrote:

Simon Mason wrote:

"Frank Bals" wrote in message
...
I really like my Sony 2010, even for SSB utilities. The 100 Hz
resolution seems to work well for about 98% of the SSB voice
signals, but I wonder if anyone has had any luck copying CW, RTTY,
FAX, NAVTEX with a decoder?

Here's a photo of me decoding TASS RTTY with a Sony ICF 2001D and a
Commodore 64 in 1988. The frequency shift was possible using the on
screen display. The interface pc board had an on board CW filter.

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/monitor.jpg

Good old TASS RTTY! I had an M6000 decoder years ago and monitored
them via Cuba.

Back when there were still a few news services using SW.

Same here. I used to get the news from mainland communist China, North
Korea, Libya and Cuba among others. Needless to say I was speechless as
to the difference between those broadcasts and the USA news media
reporting.

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Telamon
Ventura, California

"Simon Mason" wrote in message

It was after decoding Soviet ship to shore messages in RTTY that I saw
that
the Russians were not the evil people our leaders used to make out. They
were very touching messages to granddad Oleg and little Misha.

--
Simon M.




Common peoples are rarely ever the problem or evil. It takes governments and
selfish leaders mixed in with a heavy dose of religion and propaganda to
motivate people to the dark side.


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73 and good DXing.
Brian
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A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire!
Zumbrota, Southern MN
Brian's Radio Universe
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Yes, I had a similar experience with Russian RTTY. I was able
translate enough of the cyrillic to know these were health and welfare
messages from some guys on very lonely remote duty sent to the family
back home. Made me realize we were a whole lot more alike than
different.

I was using a Kenwood R-5000 and AEA PK232MBX fed to an extensively
modified TRS Color Computer and 40 column monitor.

In article ,
"Brian Hill" wrote:

"Simon Mason" wrote in message

It was after decoding Soviet ship to shore messages in RTTY that I saw
that
the Russians were not the evil people our leaders used to make out. They
were very touching messages to granddad Oleg and little Misha.


Common peoples are rarely ever the problem or evil. It takes governments and
selfish leaders mixed in with a heavy dose of religion and propaganda to
motivate people to the dark side.

Common people don't have power. It's power that corrupts.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California