In the bad old days I wrote Fortran on an upper case only teletype and later glass TTYs that only had upper case. I often made the mistake of mistyping 0 and O. Twenty or more years ago I switched to
I think that ham radio organizations should use an RFC (request for comments) mechanism when trying to agree on standards and contest rules. This seems to have worked fairly well for the various inte
I don't have any great solutions. The USB stuff may help eventually. One way to save interrupts is to use SCSI and ethernet devices. This isn't cheap, but you can hang a printer off ethernet or the S
I now have a web page at http://fermi.la.asu.edu/w9cf that has a couple of possibly useful links -- sbdvp sound card voice keyer software for TR, which should also work with the free field day versio
Author: w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu (Kevin E. Schmidt)
Date: Tue Jun 3 16:39:01 1997
I am not a serious contester, but I enjoy making contacts during contests. While, some ops do give out honest reports or at least not 599, like nearly everyone else, I generally give out 599 reports
Author: w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu (Kevin E. Schmidt)
Date: Fri Jun 6 14:17:39 1997
I am probably missing something, but as far as I can tell, all my DOS programs run in a command prompt window under NT if they really are DOS programs and don't directly program the hardware or use s
Author: w9cf@ptolemy.la.asu.edu (Kevin E. Schmidt)
Date: Sun Jul 20 21:52:21 1997
I think the original reason is that if you learn on a straight key, then its easier to send faster with your fingers rather than your thumb. When bugs were invented, it was easier to make fast clean
I'm sure Bill is aware of this, but just to be complete, if your ISP won't give you a shell account, you can get the same functionality by getting an old 386 or better with 4Megabytes of memory, and
As a low key, mostly S&P kind of guy, I'll happily send whatever you serious guys want me to. Right now, I never send the call of the CQing station unless it is required in the exchange. I have assum
I'm not disagreeing (except maybe on the definition of real tools), but if you want to use WAV or most any other audio format to make up sound files for your DVP, DVK, sound card, or what have you, y
Antique Electronic Supply http://www.tubesandmore.com/ has new old stock #47 for $0.50 each and recently made ones 10 for $2.95. 73 Kevin w9cf _______________________________________________ CQ-Conte
I am curious why the rules (at least for CQ WW) forbid entry in more than one category. In the case that Mal mentioned where someone operated on 10 and 80 meters, I don't understand why submission as
1. Beginning July 1, 1976 a person holding an extra class and a 1x2 may request a specific 1x2. A person holding an an extra who was first licensed at least 25 years ago may request a 1x2 call. 2. Be
When I used a non CAT capable radio, I hooked up a pic microcontroller as a frequency counter and serial port to read the frequency using a minmial Kenwood protocol just so that the TRlog band would
I instead predict that N1MM and other software will include a parameter for a small random frequency shift around the point and click frequency. 73 Kevin w9cf ________________________________________