I think your three answers pretty much cover it - except for one that I am surprised didn't make it: 4. To increase the # of stations the DX station can work. Recently, I have started seeing people w
will want to show off that they found the Tree, this is because software I use to spot (DXBase, N1MM) read the frequencies off my radio and post both frequencies in the spot. But I think I have a so
It is useful, however, to indicate in the spot that the DX station is listening split at least generically. Example VE2ABC 10109.4 HC8N QSX UP 0311 21 Nov 2006 this should in principle decrease the l
Author: "Paul J. Piercey" <p.piercey@nl.rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:07:55 -0000
<SNIP> stations call for 10s of minutes without giving a callsign, even in contests, and many more others giving a callsign and simply saying/sending "UP". Up is a pretty broad swath. My radio doesn'
The first couple times I heard you send just "numbers", I thought it was a malfunction with your logging program, until I decided to listen to the frequency of one of those *strange* "numbers" :-) Ha
There is just one problem with your argument against spotting the qsx frequency... if it isn't sent then stations just grabbing the spot and not listening before calling will call on you tx frequency
you are welcome to go back to paper logging if you would like. David Robbins K1TTT e-mail: mailto:k1ttt@arrl.net web: http://www.k1ttt.net AR-Cluster node: 145.69MHz or telnet://dxc.k1ttt.net ______
nope, spot grabbers don't know how to set splits 'up' in most cases. Some loggers know 'up 1' I think, but its best to spot a frequency so that everyone gets the split... if you really want to obscu