Sounds like a John Troster, W6ISQ short story. He has written some pretty
funny stuff for QST over the years.
Reid, K7YX
-----Original Message-----
From: George T. Baker [mailto:w5yr@swbell.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 11:23 AM
To: Carl Hyde; tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] TenTec RX-320 S-meter reply.
Carl, your modus operandi for a computerized station was written up in
surprising detail in one of the early postwar QSTs!
Even when the notion of a "computer" was unknown to almost everyone, the
author (can't recall his name or call) gave a very good description -
tongue in cheek, of course, considering the times - of the "automatic ham
station."
I need to drag out the 46-47 QSTs and see if I can find that again.
72/73, George
Fairview, TX 30 mi NE Dallas in Collin county
Amateur Radio W5YR, in the 54th year and it just keeps getting better!
R/C since 1964 - AMA 98452 RVing since 1972
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> From: Carl Hyde <cshyde@yahoo.com>
Before contests I just read the
> 5x9 report into my speech unit and it does the QSOs
> for me and I don't even have to talk to another ham at
> all. I just sit there sipping a cold beer and push the
> buttons on the speech box. Probably by next year I'll
> have this speech recognition development board figured
> out and I intend to have my computer tune the bands
> with the Pegasus, recognize a "CQ Contest" call, and
> reply with my callsign, a 59 and a number and log the
> contact. That way I can enter contests automatically
> and I don't even have to be home in the radio room to
> win them. I can set up an entire year's worth of
> contests in advance. Now thats Ham radio!!! I'll just
> have the computer email the completed log at the end
> of each contest and I don't even have to get involved
> with the contest at all. I'm going to call it RoboHam.
> So 5nines and 73s to all and to all a good night!
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