Occasionally (certainly doesn't happen very often, I'll say that) when a
couple of the superstations in our area are not QRV, some of us in the
Maritimes have had totally surprise wins in certain contests. (not always
CQ,mind you- hi)
Some of us have even set records. I would say it's always a surprise for
whoever 'wins'.
Personally I do not own land in a top tier contest locale or can afford that
kind of station (don't even have a tower up !) so using my very old first
gen Win-7 laptop as the shack computer and either 100w or 500w and a
vertical or low wires, I am not really geared up to usually either EXPECT to
be in the top ten anything or technologically setup to record an entire
contest. The HDD is mostly full now, nevermind trying to figure out how to
record the full 48 hours.
Maybe someone computer savvy could weigh in on this thread and indicate to
the readership here just how much disk space and processor resources it
would require to even record such an event (CW&SSB).
(I am just assuming it's well beyond what a lot of stations are capable
of, top ten or not) It would be interesting to know. On the off chance
that PEI sinks*, what kind of evidence must folks in other parts of Canada
be prepared to submit to CQ if those 2 can't play?
Thank goodness I seldom go assisted as the computers logging program
stutters now if I have a full bore telnet feed from VE7CC running during a
contest.
Inquiring minds........Mike VE9AA
*for those of you that are humour impaired, this is a joke.
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick Ridge, NB
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