Well, I presume that you thought that I had gone to sleep for nearly a year. Wrong! I just had to operate some DX contests to clear my mind. This post concerns the modem and internet access. Does thi
Hello fellow contesters. I have read many messages concerning receivers, antennas, linear amplifiers, etc. that are used to generate your contest score. The one thing that I notice is that there comp
WOW!!! I think that I awakened a sleeping giant or maybe I opened a 55 gallon drum of worms. The response to the first post has been unbelievable. Well I had some hints for immediate info about: The
Greetings fellow Contesters. I hope everyone had a good time in the 160 test this weekend. I know that I had a great time. The response to the first two posts have been 100% positive and I have been
Well I am back to continue the discussion. I stated that there is a work around fix if you can not get a bios upgrade for your computer. Western Digital has drivers that will fool your system bios in
Well I made a major blunder and also a major omission in the discussion on the hard drive and the system bios. I will first correct the blunder. I said "Do not run drivers to fool the bios so that yo
The road to getting your computer to interface with your computer controlled radio (If you do not have a radio that can be computer controlled, then you are missing a ton of fun), interfaced with the
Two weeks ago Mom reached into the cookie jar and pulled out $2500 and said "Merry Xmas! This is to buy a new confuser to replace the old confuser, you know the one that takes 3 minutes to log the qs
Schools are closed here today due to a bit of freezing rain. Well this storm is certainly no killer of an ice storm, but it seems that every other year we experience a killer of an ice storm. This is
Hello J.P. After re-reading my post I realize that I should have said that if your video card uses the com4 address, then you will not have com4 available for serial port use. I can see how I may hav
Whew! Since my last post on the Video Card and COM4, it appears that more than a few Dragons were slain by the swords of the Mighty Contesters. The score now is Contesters 1, the Confuser 0. I would
Hello all. I have received several requests from individuals to transmit the entire Contest Computer series to them. They have lost the "back Issues" due to computer blunders etc. I do not save this
All right! Let us get on with it! CT ver 9 has mouse support. OK so what? Well a mouse requires a serial port. No big deal, I have a bus mouse. Well a bus mouse needs an IRQ! Yeah but I need 2 serial
Seasons Greetings! I hope that everyone enjoys their holidays. In the last post we established that you are going to have to put some serial ports to work. Well every serial port is going to require
It is now time to carve our game plan in something soft and mushy. We don't want to carve it in stone since the first plan may not work and we may have to come up with another plan. Here we go! 1) CO