There was a very good article in the January 2012 CQ magazine by Jamie Dpuree,
NS3T, titled "Who Needs a Microphone for a Phone Contest?". I still have a copy
and back in 2018 I used the article to help me set up voice files for WriteLog
using a program called Audacity https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
I used a $5 mic/headset to record the files. During the ARRL International Grid
Chase in 2018, I entered as many contests as I could. Not one who enjoys
yelling into a microphone, I was able to use my voice files with WriteLog to
run several PHONE contests without having to use a microphone. It was just like
CW and RTTY, just working the keyboard.
You can find past issues of CQ magazine, including the January 2012 issue here:
https://hamcall.net/cq
73, Don AA5AU
On Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:38:10 PM CST, Jeff Stai
<wk6i.jeff@gmail.com> wrote:
hi - I don't phone contests very often, you will be able to tell in a
second. :)
I have a radio that has an internal sound card on a USB port. Let's say
what kind of radio doesn't matter for the moment**. What I want to do is be
able to record my messages using the microphone on the radio using
shift+Fn, thus creating a .wav file, and play them back using using my Fn
keys.
This seems like it would be perfectly obvious how to do this but after
googling and trying stuff for quite a while, I'm left stumped. I'm not
getting a recording, no .wav file is showing up. I know the mic is working.
Help?
thanks! - jeff wk6i
** I'm currently trying to get this working on a K4 to see how it's done,
but later I'm going to another shack where I'm going to want to set this up
on an FTDX10. Thus the generic question.
--
Jeff Stai ~ WK6I ~ wk6i.jeff@gmail.com
RTTY op at W7RN
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