The Audigy SE may work well in Vista but you will have all kinds of trouble with it if you use WriteLog or N1MM Logger and expect to both loop a microphone through it for DVK operation and record QSO
Bob, You know I can't let this pass. SO2R means exactly what it says ... its history goes all the way back to guys that had multiple radios (and amplifiers) tuned up are ready to go on several bands.
You are constantly repeating this refrain - it is still as intellectually and ethically bankrupt as the first day you wrote it. To separate operators into entry classes based on the efficiency of th
When you propose, promote and demand separate categories for antennas taller than 50 feet and with elements totaling more than 1/2 wave with the same vigor that you have used on your jihad against S
Bob, The walk-on freshman running back at The Ohio State University does not expect to start his first game (although he might at the University of Minnesota <G>), he's happy if he makes the travelin
Bob, I think there is clear agreement that power is a "no skill" differentiator. Power classes, even contests that do not permit high power, have been a given for 50 years or more. There is a big dif
for skywave RTTY. In particular, multipath and differential fading are much worse than even on 80 meters (and they are already problem there). If one were going to attempt serious work on 160 as opp
That is completely false. International RTTY activity has been centered around 7040 for more than 20 years and is documented in the IARU Region 1 bandplans. There are references to RTTY activity arou
Amen! This standard should be applied to ANY unattended station, including those "semi-automatic" robots that supposedly respond only to calls from attended stations. A "listen before transmit" prot
Noel, Many of the generic USB to serial adapters do not do FSK because their chips no longer include provision for 5 bit codes and data rates below 300 bps. There are a couple of easy solutions ... f
Bill, After being completely told you were off base on CQ-Contest and that the majority of REAL contesters had no problem with SO2R and no justification for a separate category based on SKILL, I find
So what? The broader contest community has said that the RTTY community is out of step with radiosport in general in discriminating against the skill shown by SO2R operators. Did you live in Mississ
A very simple but effective home built CI-V interface is one like this: http://www.qsl.net/g3vgr/civ.html. It can easily be built on a piece of perf board and contained inside the shell of a DB9. 73,
Telnet spotting is built into all of the major contest logging software - there is no hardware difference unless you want to reopen the argument whether computer logging should constitute a separate
The very same hardware used for computer (assisted) logging that you don't deem worthy of a separate category. Of course, hypocrisy in pursuit of your jihad against SO2R doesn't matter as long as yo
kk5oq writes ... Your comment has no place in this discussion. The anti-SO2R jihad by W6WRT to put SO2R operators in a separate place (a virtual ghetto) are what is bigoted. They represent nothing le
W6WRT distorts facts again ... W4TV has been a contester for 30 years ... whether I have been active in the 48 hour grind for the last few years is not an issue. microHAM has one product that is dire
Phil, The information I have (and the data used for developing JST-245 support with the microham interfaces) indicates that the JST-245 does not support FSK RTTY. It supports only AFSK - the RTTY mod
PACTOR III has at least three other things against it beside its excessive bandwidth. 1) it is regularly abused for automatically controlled networks by quasi-commercial interests. 2) it is a propri
Steve, The general answer is yes. The main receiver audio in the FT-1000MP (and Mark V) is on the tip of the AF Out jack, the subreceiver audio is on the ring. Connect that jack (in stereo) to the so