Dr Dx was like sitting down at a real radio and actually tuning the bands during a contest and working guys. Other have explained this here, but seems that the "alternatives" being offered are not ju
I don't understand why somebody couldn't come up with essentially the same thing for a current operating system. I never owned a C-64, but as primitive as it was by today's standards replication of
I remember when I was a kid, and my father gave me an AEA MM-3 - The Morse Machine as a birthday present. It included a DX Contest simulator, you could change bands and you could set your latitude an
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:44:34 -0400
So, the post I did earlier kind of summarizes what differentiate it from VE3NEAs program. KR2Q or N6GQ or anyone can fill in gaps. This program is 30 years old. First, as I and KR2Q mentioned, this w
Unfortunately I never had the pleasure of experiencing Dr. DX and I have always felt that I really missed out! I would love to be able to operate it now and hope that someone out there is willing to
Very impressive! Thanks! For a modern implementation, any Morse code oscillator could just feed the sound card to provide the hardware interface for a paddle. I wonder if a modern implementation co
I never experienced it in its heyday but I do have a cartridge on a physical C64. Night and day compared to the pileup sims. 73 Ria, N2RJ _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest ma
NN3W is right on target. The BEST (most impressive) feature for me was that it "knew" propagation (Rich said this). It was just so cool to work EU from "NJ" on the high bands as the "sun rose" and si
Agree. It was an amzing product, especially considering the C64 only had about 30K of RAM available for programming. I guess Windoze is just too inefficient to run it, with its gigabytes of RAM :-) B
Author: Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 08:57:44 -0400
Thanks Doug. Perhaps N2RJ can upload a 15 or 20 minute demo of what Doctor DX actually does. I know you've got 1) work, 2) family, 3) rona, and 4) radio (including ARRL duties), but a video showing h
On 09/29/2020 06:35 PM, Martin, LU5DX wrote: I remember when I was a kid, and my father gave me an AEA MM-3 - The Morse Machine as a birthday present. It included a DX Contest simulator, you could ch
Dr DX was a lot of fun, but it could be gamed. Set your keyer speed to 100 wpm and CQ <your call> the instant it starts sending you a report. I consistently went over 500 qsos per hour. I don't know
Does anyone know the identity of the programmer? Seems that if source code were available it should be possible to recompile for Windows without too much difficulty. 73, Pete N4ZR Check out the Reve
Didn't AEA also offer "awards" you could get like DXCC and WAZ based on the stations you "worked' using Dr. DX? 73 John AF5CC _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list C
N4ZR asks: A little like suggesting building a Stradivarius is as simple as finding Mr. Stradivarius' CAD drawings and running it through a 3-D printer. Pete, this is a Commodore 64 and the source co
In a previous discussion of Dr DX a number of years ago (maybe on this list, maybe elsewhere...), I recall the programmer of Dr DX responded to a post about it. IIRC, he was a 6-land guy. Maybe some
Hello all, If anyone has the CQ Magazine this far back, there was a product review. Maybe the programmer is mentioned there. "Product Review / Announcement, AEA Doctor DX Morse Code and Contest Simul
The Short Wave (TSW) (4 April 1983 - 17 June 1992) Functions : Coder, Cracker Handle alternative spelling : Short Wave Handlestory : In 1983, I won second and third place in a computer idea competiti
Why 6502 Assembly? It could have been be C or even Pascal. There were such compilers for that architecture. 73, Martín LU5DX _______________________________________________ CQ-Contest mailing list CQ
I was thinking it was an N7 with a 2-letter call but an N6 sounds right. Jim N7US Sent from Samsung tablet -- Original message -- From: Barry W2UP <w2up.co@gmail.com> Date: 10/1/20 12:26 PM (GMT-06:0