I assume that was K5PI at V31TP who said hello two or three times. I'm sure
you guys had a blast. I've been out of the loop for a while, but decided to
get on for part of this weekend, and I sure am glad I did - 100 watts on a
dipole into Europe on 80 meters was very nice.
I decided to get my Vista laptop with only USB ports ready for contesting, if
possible. I was thinking of using N1MM, so I picked up a microHAM CW Keyer to
get a WinKey interface for CW (and a nice rig interface in the same box on the
same USB cable). Before I got to N1MM, I read about TR4W, the windows
offspring of TR-log (http://tr4w.qrz.ru/) and installed it. My first challenge
was figuring out where Vista put my configuration files, and solving that did
take a while. I was just starting to think, Vista isn't as bad as I heard, but
it is different.
The microHAM CW Keyer installation was very straightforward as was the included
rig interface to my old Orion. Once I found the contest configuration file and
edited it, TR4W was great. I was really impressed. A lot of nice interface
features accessible with various windows made setup easier and a lot more
dynamic. My only question or observation is that there seems to be a slight
delay compared to old DOS TR-log with just about any keypress. Maybe I am just
out of contest shape, but I wonder if anyone has used TR4W for SO2R where any
delay is an issue?
73 -- John
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