How does Feld Hell compare with PSK31?
• The hardware setup and cabling is exactly the same. • Good freeware and shareware software is available for both. • Tuning in a hellschreiber signal is easier and faster. • Hellschreiber is a little slower for sending text. • No cut-n-paste from the receive screen with hellschreiber. • You can chose the text font for sending with hellschreiber. • Weak signals have better readabilty with hellschreiber. PSK31 is a true digital mode and for some people that makes it a “sexier” mode than Hellschreiber. Hell modes are more closely related to CW than to other digital mode. With CW you use your ears and for Hell modes your eyes. Having both fuzzy and digital modes available on the computer desk top has been a good strategy for me. The Hellschreiber frequencies are next to the PSK31 frequencies on most ham bands, so they are easy to mix. As more PSK31 ops discover how nicely the two operating modes compliment each other, we will see more Hellschreiber activity. What about the other Hellschre
