I didn't make that mistake but I caught myself just in the nick of
time on one occasion (was it 15 meters?). Then I sat there and
chuckled while I heard two or three others get snookered. Yes,
some kind of warning about such things is needed.
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73, Rich - W3ZJ
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-writelog@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-writelog@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Scott Babb
> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:39 PM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] Packet enhancement request
>
>
>
> You've been in the chair for 34 hours, competing in the
> "single-op, iron-butt" class. Suddenly a rare double
> multiplier pops up in the packet spot window. You double
> click on the spot and quickly bag the mult before the
> pile-up starts. Then you notice that the pile-up still
> hasn't started while you're doing a ctrl-S save of the
> log, "just in case." Then you notice that you're 15kHz
> *outside* the U.S. band.
>
> Not that this has happened to me, mind you... Well, at
> least I've zeroed out the points and mults when it has.
>
> Is there some magical way to specify that you don't want to
> see spots outside the U.S. Extra phone bands on 20/15/10?
> If not, is it possible to add "frequency filters" to keep
> me from doing stupid stuff when I'm tired? Does anyone else
> have this problem or am I just not trying hard enough?
>
> 73 de KE1KD,
> Scott
>
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