Well Jim, you took this a bit off of the subject of the request.
I'm only asking what it can do for me to improve my score in a hf
DX-contest.
I'm trying to see if it is worth spending $1000 which I estimated it would
cost me to implement this.
So far nobody has come even close to presenting me with a feature that would
make it worth that to me.
As a comparison, once I deployed the BandMap, which was totally free and
fully integrated into my contest logging software, within 2 years my CQWW
score doubled over what my typical score in the past was. IMO it was the
single most useful thing since PR DX Cluster was introduced.
Since I can't manage to stay awake long enough in the contest, there are
always plenty of stations for me to work.
So I don't spend much time on dead bands. Actually zero. There is always
another band open where I can maintain a higher run rate. But I will add
the dead band feature to the list of things it can do. It is a valid
feature.
Thanks
73 - Rick, DJ0IP
(Nr. Frankfurt am Main)
-----Original Message-----
From: TenTec [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 4:19 PM
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Pan-Adaptor vs. Using BandMap with Ten-Tec
Transceivers
On 11/5/2014 1:29 AM, Rick - DJ0IP / NJ0IP wrote:
> I AM STILL TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE BANDSCOPE (or Pan-Adaptor)
> WILL HELP "ME" in "my way" of working DX contests.
> I know it helps for other things, but how will it improve my contest
score?
Let me count the ways. First, it finds signals on "empty" bands very
quickly. Great for 6M and 10M, for example. Second, it finds a clear
frequency where I can call CQ. Third, it finds signals that I can hear and
work, not that someone else can hear but I cannot. Fourth, it finds signals
on their actual frequency, rather than a wrong frequency that someone posted
wrong.
It's also great in a DX pileup -- let's me find clear spots in the pileup,
see how wide it is, see the frequency of the guy who just worked him, etc.
And it's great for tracking down noise -- I can see the drifting noise bumps
of a switching power supply, see other broadband noise stuff.
And, if what you have is an Elecraft P3, you've got a measurement-quality
spectrum analyzer with relative calibration of amplitude in dB and frequency
in Hz or kHz, so you can measure the occupied bandwidth of a transmitter.
73, Jim K9YC
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