>
>
>I saw a bunch of traffic recently (within the past few months) about the
>Radio Shack DSP unit, but can't find anything in my archives.
>
>Local store has them on clearance - any comments for use on the
>second/S&P contest radio? I have an IC-725, which doesn't have the best
>filtering...
>
>73, Greg
>
>Greg Becker NA2N
Greg, I used a IC725 w/ the RS DSP for over a year and would encourage
you to grab it if it's on sale. On SSB, you will notice quite a
reduction in splatter...on CW, it's great; super sharp and not too
much ringing. The Noise Reduction is so-so but for the price, you will
be glad you got one.
Or you can get an IC775DSP... :)
John K7FD
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>From n2ic@drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM) Wed Oct 11 18:00:57 1995
From: n2ic@drmail.dr.att.com (LondonSM) (LondonSM)
Subject: TS-950SDX Questions
Message-ID: <9510111100.ZM556@dr.att.com>
I have now had my TS-950SDX long enough to understand its basic operation. I
have a few questions for other 950SDX owners that may help me improve my
CONTEST performance:
1) I don't understand how to use the SUB receiver on a band other than what the
MAIN rx is tuned to. Menu option 5 seems to imply a CROSS band SUB rx
capability, but enabling option 5 doesn't seem to make any difference - I still
can't put the SUB rx on a different band from the MAIN rx. What am I doing
wrong, or what don't I understand about option 5 ?
2) This one is really stretching, but I thought I would ask .... The receive
AF DSP seems to operate only on FSK. Is there any way to put all that
horsepower to use on receive CW or SSB ? As a CW/SSB contester, it seems like
a terrible shame to not be able to use the receive audio bandwidth shaping
capabilities of the AF DSP.
BTW, I feel that the 950SDX is a great radio, priced somewhat less than an
FT-1000D. Contrary to the feelings of other contesters, I love the ability to
independently choose different filters in the different IFs. And, of course,
the 950SDX does not suffer from the receive audio problems inherent in the
FT-1000D.
Thanks,
Steve London, N2IC/0
n2ic@dr.att.com
>From k2mm@MasPar.COM (John Zapisek K2MM) Wed Oct 11 19:29:57 1995
From: k2mm@MasPar.COM (John Zapisek K2MM) (John Zapisek K2MM)
Subject: CQP E-Mail Logs
Message-ID: <9510111829.AA28020@greylock.local>
Randy asked this question about sending CQP logs via e-mail:
> [Randy/K5ZD] What file format do you want the logs in?
Since several others have asked, it seemed useful to share the answer
with everyone.
Any ASCII format will do. Please prepend your summary sheet.
If your file contains non-printing characters, then your mailer program
may decide to encode its contents. This is a pain. If you're using CT,
the best bet is probably the ARRL format.
Sorry, we can't handle .BIN files yet.
73. --John/K2MM
P.S. The e-mail address for logs is cqp-1995@kb.org.
>From Pete Soper <psoper@encore.com> Wed Oct 11 21:11:45 1995
From: Pete Soper <psoper@encore.com> (Pete Soper)
Subject: CQP score rumor
Message-ID: <27645.9510112011@earl.encore.com>
Operator : KS4XG
Category : Single Operator, Low Power
Default Exchange : # North Carolina
MODE BAND QSOs Mults
______________________________
SSB 40 3 0
SSB 20 85 42
SSB 15 30 3
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Totals 118 x 2 x 45 = 10620 points
Equipment
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Icom 735 @ around 100 watts, tuner, homebrew 20 meter 2 element
quad type antenna used on all bands. Latest version of CT.
Comments
________
Thanks to the organizers for a fun contest.
It was nice to find 15 meters usable for a while on both days.
What I want to know is how many secret bonus points the California
operators earned by running the loudest stations 500 hz from each
other for hours at a time? The astonishing aspect of this was the way
you folks never seemed to answer the wrong station. I recall one
episode where two of you were right on top of each other or maybe 50
hz apart and I still managed to work you both. It must be the timing
of the reply to your "CQ" that you keyed off. I was very impressed.
Still too green (i.e. cowardly) to call "CQ" even for the half hour when my
signal was booming (in a little pistol kind of way) on 15 meters on Saturday
for a half hour. Heaven knows there was plenty of room on that band!
I got faked into a dupe when I failed to check a callsign because a new
operator at the station had a very very highly processed female voice while
the previous voice on that frequency had been male with OK processing.
Always check! The second operator's voice was so hard to understand that it
took a few seconds for the "we've worked before" to ping pong into my gray
matter and I'm sure I sounded pretty doofus with a very long delayed "OK".
Couldn't figure out how to log county line stations with CT (I just put in
a second QSO with same received call/#), nor how to delete a dupe caused by
fumbling an extra character into a callsign. Editing the files by hand to
rejigger everything seemed pretty silly. I did know to avoid "fix_mine"
(for serial number type contests aka "hose_my_log_please"). Need another
pass through the manual as I've got to be missing some things here. But CT
sure beats the paper logs and manual dupe lookups. And I was really tickled
by the fact that it displays better frequency resolution than the radio's
display. Tuning finer than 100hz with the 735 was always a bother but now
I can use CT to get it "spot on".
Finally, for Field Day next year I'm going to charge batteries with the
"natural power" from rectifying the signals coming in from the Texas contest
stations. If what I was hearing from Texas during CQP was off the backs of
their beams I feel I'll have no trouble at all getting enough energy when they
are pointed my way part of the time.
Regards and :-) of course,
Pete
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Pete Soper (psoper@encore.com) KS4XG 1+ 919 481 3730, 481 3868/FAX
Encore Computer Corp 901 Kildaire Farm Rd Cary, NC 27511 USA grid FM05oq
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