RSGB 21/28MHz CW Contest 1994
A reminder that this contest takes place on Sunday, 16th October 0700-1900z
UK stations send RST, serial number and three-letter county code. Overseas
stations send RST and serial number. Scoring for overseas stations is
3 points per QSO with UK stations and the multiplier is the number of county
codes worked on each band.
Deadline for mailing logs is 14 November, and the address is RSGB HF Contests
Committee, 77 Bensham Manor Road, Thornton Heath, Surrey, CR7 7AF, UK. Note
that this is the address for all overseas entries in RSGB contests.
As an experiment, you may email ascii logs for this contest to
wbs@cix.compulink.co.uk but only consider your log safely received once
you get an acknowledgement.
Dave G4BUO
RSGB HF Contests Committee
>From esrac@stack.urc.tue.nl (ESRAC) Thu Oct 13 12:48:35 1994
From: esrac@stack.urc.tue.nl (ESRAC) (ESRAC)
Subject: unsubscribe
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>From barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) Thu Oct 13 12:36:46 1994
From: barry@w2up.wells.com (Barry Kutner) (Barry Kutner)
Subject: K1EA DVP board delay
Message-ID: <ZBR5Tc1w165w@w2up.wells.com>
I've never noticed a delay with the DVP (that is, with the sound clips
stored in RAMDrive). Doesnt the Voice Blaster pgm store the audio in
extended memory, rather than on disk? If so, there shouldn't be a delay.
--
Barry N. Kutner, W2UP Usenet/Internet: barry@w2up.wells.com
Newtown, PA Packet Radio: W2UP @ WB3JOE.#EPA.PA.USA.NA
Packet Cluster: W2UP >K2TW (FRC)
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>From Peter G. Smith" <n4zr@netcom.com Thu Oct 13 13:48:01 1994
From: Peter G. Smith" <n4zr@netcom.com (Peter G. Smith)
Subject: K1EA DVP board delay
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9410130520.A18593-0100000@netcom>
I had noticed the delay in repeat mode also, and just took it as a
software bug.
73, Pete
N4ZR@netcom.com
"Better, faster,cheaper -- choose any two"
>From AGDM25A@prodigy.com ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT) Thu Oct 13 13:29:28 1994
From: AGDM25A@prodigy.com ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT) ( KEVIN - WA8ZDT)
Subject: DVP OP TECHNIQUES
Message-ID: <013.01486719.AGDM25A@prodigy.com>
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To: KWIDELITZ@delphi.com
From: AGDM25A
Subject: RE: K1EA DVP BOARD DELAY
Ken
I have used K1EA's DVK at K8LX for going on three years now. You are
discovering the first of many little "buggs".
When I'm really flying along, say at 2-3 qso's per minute, i really start
to fly around the keyboard. The DVK doesn't crash, but it does some weird
stuff, like put out garbage instead of CQ. I think that happens when you
hit [enter] to log, then immediately hit [F1] to CQ...
All in all, the DVK is a pretty nice card though. I like being able to
re-record messages on the fly. Is this your first DVK?
Remember, you gotta watch out for the trap of letting the DVK set your
operating pace. If the band is really hot, you may have to simply talk and
use the mic. The leangth of your messages sets your pace. Long xchange
and CQ messages chain you to a pace of say 90/hour. You can have twenty
people stacked up and responding to each of your CQs, and you will NEVER
xceed 90/hr. In normal manual "talking" mode, your voice naturally speeds
up & slows down to accomadate. Watch out for a hot band. Just because you
spent hundreds of $$$ and hours programming your DVK, don't insist on using
it for each and every QSO. Its a nifty novelity to sit there and make a
thousand QSO without saying anything, but your score will be way down.
I re-record my CQ and xchange messages dozens of times during the contest
weekend. I just hit the keys, and record them while I'm on-air with a real
CQ. That way my messages usually match the current pace.
A DVK is great for slow times, but again there is a trap! Its easy to get
lulled into simply parking yourself and hitting the CQ message over and
over again. In the old "pre-DVK" days, you probably would have tired of
CQing in a couple minutes and moved on. Now with a DVK, its easy to get
lulled into just sitting there for ten or fifteen minutes and send
unproductive CQs.
Well, just a few DVK thoughts. They're a lot of fun, and certainly there
is no turning back..... 73 .. kevn ... WA8ZDT
>From levine@jericho.mc.com (Bob Levine) Thu Oct 13 14:42:56 1994
From: levine@jericho.mc.com (Bob Levine) (Bob Levine)
Subject: LTA soundblaster software
Message-ID: <9410131342.AA16795@fugu>
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>Last night I was trying out the multimedia interface on WriteLog and found
>a second or so delay between hitting the function key and the output
>from the sound card. Does this delay occur in the LTA soundblaster software?
>Does this delay occur when using the CT DVP board? With the homebrew
>DVK, simular to the W9XT card, the output is NOW.
>
>Jim, 'Still working on the bad audio, just automating it', WA6SDM
>jholly@cup.hp.com
On the Sound Blaster with the LTA Voice Blaster software, whatever delay
there is between hitting the key and the message being sent is imperceptible.
It might sound like crap, what with all the audio hum I still can't get rid
of, but it sure is quick! =========
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I use the LTA Voiceblaster software and have no audio hum. My soundblaster
output is fed into a "multimedia station" with built in speakers. The station
also has a 1/4" phono plug output for headphones. I constructed the interface
to the rig using an audio transformer as described in the manual that comes
with the software. The audio from the 1/4" phono plug goes into the rig through
the transformer. I just set the vox so that when I hit an F Key, the audio into
the rig is sufficient to open the vox. Works great. Few tiny ferrite beads to
eliminate some RF and works fine.
Bob KD1GG
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