Hi Peter,
I'd rather operate with my first love, a Commodore VIC-20 with a Hamsoft
Cartridge, a modem and a scope. Yep, I've still got 'em and believe it or
not, they still work via FSK. Not much memory, no sound card, no other
software. Its type ahead buffer is great for rag chews.
I've got other resources, but I really like the old setup and pray that
it keeps on chugging. Second string is an old XT machine (DOS) connected to an
SCS PTC II. No sound card or internet here, but it does have about a 4MB hard
drive.
I don't see myself as a candidate for MMTTY or Cabrillo data. A number of years
ago I actually won JARTS on 7Mhz with the VIC20 and a paper log that I
transcribed with an old fashioned device called a typewriter.
Ah, memories!
73 de Phil - N8PS
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Quoting Peter Laws <plaws@plaws.net>:
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 14:30, Phil Sussman <psussman@pactor.com> wrote:
>
> > You must have a home computer, an internet connection, and logging
> software
> > in order to participate. Heaven forbid if you can't get your computer data
> into
> > the correct format -or- the robot hickups. A paper log? Might as well burn
> it!
>
> Are you operating an actual TTY? Otherwise, you already have a computer.
>
> There's no requirement to have logging software, but if you're going
> to log at all, you might as well use something that captures the
> exchange correctly. Even MMTTY will do that (I made 350 QSOs using
> MMTTY alone in WPX RTTY in 2004).
>
> Most software that can do that would be capable of spitting out a
> robot-digestible log (Cabrillo format). But there's no regulation
> requiring you to send it in.
>
> And you don't need an internet connection.
>
>
>
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>
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