I too have picked out a hill for September VHF contest. No houses, no power
line noise. Have a new deep cycle battery, recently constructed "lawn-mower
charger" and a 700 watt inverter to power the laptop and rotors. I am
outfitting my TearDrop trailer with the radios now and rigging a mount to
hold a tri-pod for the antennas (4, 6m-430) on the tongue of the trailer.
Being able to use the voice keyer in Writelog would be a real asset as my
voice won't sound too good after the first few hours.
Please share any info you can. Thanks!
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From: writelog-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:writelog-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Steve Baranski
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:13 PM
To: WriteLog@contesting.com
Subject: [WriteLog] S02R and DVK setup
I am interested in setting up so2r for the sept VHF contest, using an ICOM
706 for 6 meter and a YAESU 290R for 2 meter. I am looking to set up the
Voice Keyer for use with both rigs, and use a microphone plugged into the PC
for both radios. This is the first time I plan to use writelog, in the past
I have used a rigblaster nomic and AAvoice to run my 706 with the soundcard
voice keyer. I did get a K1NU cable for the 706, and it seems to be working
fine, except for keying the rig (I believe I read somewhere it wont work
with the 706).
I will be running this on either a laptop with windows XP, or a windows 2000
desktop. I would like to run it on the laptop, so I can take it hilltop, but
I am restricted to 1 serial port (using a usb to serial adapter, which I
have had some luck with) and the parallel port if I can get userport to
work. the desktop has 2 serial porets & a parallel port. I am looking for
input on where to go next.... any opinion would be valued. I do have some
homebrew experience, but no where near extensive, and would like to complete
and test it before the contest.
KB8VLI
Steve Baranski
stevebaranski@hotmail.com
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