With your transmitter in the LSB mode (Lower Side Band), whatever frequency goes into the microphone input will be subtracted from what your dial says and be transmitted on that frequency.
How do you do that with AFSK? Here’s how. Remember that your MARK signal has to be on 14080.00 kHz and SPACE 170 Hz lower. Let’s say you want to transmit on 14080.00 kHz, as in the previous example.
Sounds simple, right? Here’s the tricky part: The tones are two simple sine waves, but the frequency and amplitude of the tones is critical. When you transmit your TNC or soundcard will put out a pair of audio tones that cause your transmitter to send the required RF output. To operate with AFSK, you put your transmitter in the SSB mode instead of FSK mode, and you put an audio signal into the microphone input (some transceivers have a rear connector for audio data input). With older tube-type equipment, it may offer some advantage. With modern transmitters, drift is not a problem and transmit AFC is generally not needed. Also, AFSK can do some things FSK can not, such as Automatic Frequency Control (AFC) of the transmitter. AFSK is a bit trickier to set up and use, but when it is done correctly, it works just as well as FSK and will transmit a perfect RTTY signal. AFSK can be used with any SSB transmitter. Since not all transmitters support FSK input, there is another method available – AFSK.
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Check your owner’s manual if you’re not sure. FSK is simpler, easier and more foolproof than AFSK and is highly recommended if your transmitter supports FSK input.
This signal may come from a TNC (Terminal Node Controller) such as a Kantronics KAM, an AEA PK-232, HAL DXP-38 or some other, or it may come from a soundcard program via one of your computer’s com ports. With FSK, your transmitter receives a simple on-off signal which causes the carrier frequency to shift back and forth. So what is the difference? It’s the way your transmitter generates the RF signal. If the transmitter is operating properly, the station receiving the RTTY signal can not tell any difference at all. MARK is always the higher RF frequency and SPACE is always the lower RF frequency. Regardless of which method is used, the RF signal sent out over the air is identical. FSK means Frequency Shift Keying and AFSK means Audio Frequency Shift Keying.
Click here to read about when I acquired the ST-6 and Model 32.You will often hear the terms FSK and AFSK when talking about RTTY on the HF bands. My Equipment: So far my RTTY equipment is limited to a HAL-ST6 Terminal Unit, and a Teletype Model 32, which although similar to the infamous Model 33, is a 5-bit “Baudot” machine, originally used for the “ Telex” Network.
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In most modern cases, a USB audio interface now replaces the “terminal unit”, and software like FLDIGI replace the teleprinter, but as the RTTY protocol uses the old Baudot character set at 45.5bps baud, most older gear still works fine! For example a Model 15 teletype can be used for RTTY, and it first came out in 1930! RTTY usually involves 3 major pieces of equipment your radio receiver/transceiver (most standard ham radios today work with RTTY), a “terminal unit”, and a teleprinter/Teletype. The interesting part of RTTY, is that it’s not only still a fairly popular digital mode amongst many newer, better digital modes, but it’s historically significant that this particular mode can work with equipment that literally dates back to the 1920’s. There’s a bit of crossover here, as Teletypes were not only used for amateur radio use, but often used for computing as well (now vintage computing), so this page is dedicated to the radio side of things, while I may have another page dedicated to the computer use of Teletypes.
#Ham rtty how to
It was first pioneered by the Navy, and later amateur radio operators formed groups such as the “ South California Radio Teletype Society” that literally took in cheap and free equipment from companies such as Western Union, and got them in the hands of amateur radio operators who started figuring out how to get them to talk over the air on the amateur bands. Radio Teletype is the evolution of the old “telegram” services from the late 1800s, but instead using “teleprinters” (aka Typewriters) that work over radio waves. This page is all about RTTY, or “ Radio Teletype“.
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