Ed, I think it's safe to say that your worst LID day is probably better than many good op's best days. Looking forward to seeing your articles. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie Wa
Nothing magical about 48 seconds. Won't the pactor guys make the same argument - but instead of 48 seconds maybe they will claim 48 minutes or some other period. The fact is, there are options for gu
Bill, I think it would actually work. They can call you and work only you. So you would have the benefit of being the only girl at the dance, and with the entire world waiting to work your band, a lo
If RM11708 passes, and it looks like it will, the JT65 guys will look back on RTTY contest interference as "the good old days." The worst case is that the upper band segment fills up with the pactor
Asking membership for inputs on actions that affect the entirety of the US ham population - now that IS a good idea. 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-charlie Too late that train has alrea
If you hear a call absent the trailing cq, then you cannot be sure the call sign is from the guy doing the CQ. If you are running S&P on two rigs at once, the time savings is huge. And I don't think
I ran Alexs RTTY Skimmer Server over the WPX contest weekend and had a tough time decoding multiple bands without throttling, even though the PC it was running on is pretty stout. If you ran RTTY Ski
Pete, thanks for the comments. On my AMD 945 (3750 passmark), I could see about 350 decoders max. On two bands at 96 Khz, there were around 600 signals. If that's representative, it's fair to assume
The problem is that the League is saying they want input - and presumably will respect the input received. But so far, their actions have been to move forward with their pro-email-via-HF position - r
No problem there Bill. I'm afraid you may get your wish. There is a new error correcting mode that is going to take over RTTY - and it's coming to a band near you soon! It's called Pactor 4. 73/jeff/
While Im grateful to have dx0p on the air, I am confused by the choice of RTTY. In my limited pileup experience I have found the sustained rates possible in that mode to be really poor compared to CW
I am interested to see if any of the board members runs N1MM plus in So2r and frequently uses the dueling CQ function? I use it a lot but its implementation in the Plus version of N1MM does not make
The mouse is slick. But after a while my wrist hurts from the knuckles to the forearm. Frequent stretching helps but I keep pushing on the dueling CQ because the short relief it offers gives time to
I don't get the nod-off - but my affliction is a sort of mental thousand yard glare that last for a minute, typically occurring on the far end of the contest as my body is telling my caffeine soaked
It does not happen often so I don't think it is much of an issue. It only takes a couple of seconds to fix whatever is the issue. And it's really not killing anyone's rate because not every Q is fumb
Are you using N1MM or N1MM+? For N1MM+ in RTTY, I have a skin that works well for exactly the thing you suggest. The bright screen is fatiguing. If you like, I can forward the skin to you to try. 73/
I have so many things that tend to break down and need to be checked on the practice sessions, a 4 hour run on Thursday would be just about right! :) 73/jeff/ac0c www.ac0c.com alpha-charlie-zero-char
Don, I ran Alex Skimmer Server on a local QS1R in the WPX earlier this year and the results were hard to believe. Performance was exceptional. And the benefit is that 100% of the spots are workable b
The number of time sent really depends on a lot of things. If you have a big signal and are running high power, then it's easier to get away with a single instance of sending the guy's call sign beca
Pete, Sorry for the confusion. Let me expand a bit... I dont' have much battle-experience running assisted; just the one time WPX 2014 run. I ran my local skimmer server setup here fed by my antenna