I had a DR DX and at that time I was working in China, 2 months on and one off.
I took my Dr DX with me one trip and had a blast with it. Took the computer, 8
inch B/W TV, keyer and paddle. Surpisingly enough even way back then the
Customs inspectors didn't say a word. And in those days they went through
everything.
Spent many evenings chasing DX with that and listening on my R-1000 receiver
too!
73, Tom iid
There is no joy in Mudville!
http://www.dfwcontest.com
K5IID Tom Horton Hillsboro, TX
E sorter for ARRL W5 bureau
Same call for 57 years!
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From: Barry <w2up@comcast.net>
To: "cq-contest@contesting.com" <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Dr. DX
Agreed. It was an amazing program, especially considering the ,e,ory
limitations on the Commodore 64, which had about 32K of RAM. A Windows
version would use 100 Meg :-)
Barry W2UP
On 12/16/2013 13:39, kr2q@optimum.net wrote:
> I don't remember the year, but I used Dr. DX at Dayton, out in the one the
> convention center
> areas.
>
> They didn't have much of a pileup (people), but I gave it a try.
>
> For those who never got to play with it, you would set your call (location)
> and go. It "knew"
> what the bands (all of them) should be like for YOUR location (including DX)
> for that time of day.
>
> So if you set it up for east coast USA and went to 80m at local noon time,
> the band was dead.
> But if you went to 80 at, say 10pm local time, it was hopping, including QRM
> and static crashes.
> But if you went to 10m at 10pm local time,
> hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
>
> I remember one guy set it up as if his call were an HS. All he had were JA
> callers on 20m at whatever
> time he had set it up for. Pretty cool stuff.
>
> And you "tuned the band" to find DX too. It was the BEST contest simulator
> I've ever experienced.
>
> Too bad there isn't something like that now with a windows GUI. During
> crappy SFI, it
> was more fun than the actual contest (not sure if that would still hold
> true...activity has
> just gone through the roof compared to back then...no matter what).
>
> Bring it back....I'd buy one!
>
> de Doug KR2Q
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