A few Items:
Did anyone have a chance to pick up a copy of the Northern
Ohio DX group at Dayton? If you did, I'd like to hear what
you have to say about the article THE DUMBING OF AMATEUR
RADIO. I can't believe this was even published. Are we
trying to impress our neighbors? Isn't contesting and dxing
suppose to be a challenge to us? We can communicate to
just about anyplace in the world via internet right now.
Anyone who has gotten on the converse knows how easy it is to
talk anywhere and how un-challenging that is. DX and Contesting
are challenges. Challenges against the opposition,
propagation, and against yourself. I'd like to hear from
anyone who read this article and see if I read something
wrong!
VIRTUAL CONTESTING.
Contesting has been BETTER THAN EVER lately. I worked a
couple thousand contacts for about 1.6m points and the
pile-ups were fantastic! If you haven't checked out PED411i
yet or SOLAR MAX, you're missing some good contesting!
PED is one super program. I have a Thunderboard by
MediaVison. Once I found out that the PAS (Pro Audio
Systems) switch worked for my board, the pile-ups began! I
wonder what the VOICE PED is going to sound like!
SOLAR MAX is real interesting too. I have really surprized
myself a few times cking where I thought the band should be
open (going by DXedge) and finding myself with 0 contacts
for the 1/2 hour. I suggest you run SOLAR MAX with the
printer ON. The summary at the end is very interesting to
compare. One note on SOLAR MAX, <<<< MAKE SURE YOU HIT THE
RIGHT KEYS! >>>>>>. The one thing that the program is
lacking is a ARE YOU SURE? when you hit a wrong key.
As soon as you hit a key other than the RIGHT one, you're
out of the contest and you have to start over!
73 de KI8W
z
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