> Old RTTY modems, including valved ones, are not quite in this > class although they come close How are they different ? I've an early 80's schematic for a RTTY transceiver which doesn't use a 555 for modulation (there's one to set the baud rate). It has a gated twin-T oscillator for the '0' and '1' tones and an AY3-1015-D UART to iinterface with a Microbee computer (think Commodore 64 or VIC20) -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist