There is a station out of Mobile,AL on Shortwave that is a Maritime Mobile Station that is relaying by Radio Teletype Voice of America news on 8437 kHz to those ships at sea in the Gulf. Anyone who has RTTY decoding software can pick this station up. This has been talked about on DXLD discussion group on Yahoo and reminds some people about the old days of Radio.
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Maritime Mobile Station relaying VOA news
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I remember playing with these RTTY feeds way back when I had a Kantronics interface and a Commodore-128 computer next to my FRG-7.
I might try to see if I can still lock to this with the old interface, and if so, maybe look at buying an MFJ stand-alone decoder:
http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-462B
I might try to see if I can still lock to this with the old interface, and if so, maybe look at buying an MFJ stand-alone decoder:
http://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=MFJ-462B
Actually if you have a computer and soundcard - and you have at least one of those or else you would not be posting 
Then it becomes very easy without the expensive intereface to decode RTTY (and a number of other digital modes excpet DRM).
The program I use (because I also transmit) is NBEMS. It is available as a free download. There are also several others. If you are very quiet it will work and decode through a laptop on-board microphone (I have done this and it works well). But I have made a cable from the headphone output of the radio to the microphone input of the computer. You either have to put an attenuator in or turn the volume VERY low.
If you are interested, after decoding RTTY, look at some of the other digital modes (prticularly PSK31) on 14.070 USB.
Then it becomes very easy without the expensive intereface to decode RTTY (and a number of other digital modes excpet DRM). The program I use (because I also transmit) is NBEMS. It is available as a free download. There are also several others. If you are very quiet it will work and decode through a laptop on-board microphone (I have done this and it works well). But I have made a cable from the headphone output of the radio to the microphone input of the computer. You either have to put an attenuator in or turn the volume VERY low.
If you are interested, after decoding RTTY, look at some of the other digital modes (prticularly PSK31) on 14.070 USB.
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