In advance of this weekend’s CQ WPX contest, I’m releasing a free utility
program developed from my experience in the ARRL ROUNDUP and beta tested in the
BARTG SPRINT contest. I operated primarily S&P and found myself performing the
same repetitive task: select wide bandpass filters; search for a station;
select narrow bandpass filters; work the station; select wide bandpass filters;
search for next station...
This utility monitors the Icom CI-V traffic between your radio and your logging
software and automatically widens/narrows your configured filter selections.
The premise is that your radio is in one of two States - either TUNING to find
somebody or STATIONARY to work somebody. I’ve tested it successfully with my
three logging programs: DX4Win, DXLabs Commander, and N1MM Logger.
Documentation and Download instructions are available here:
http://www.k8ut.com/tiki-index.php?page=CI-Vfilter+Utility+Documentation
Perhaps a poor fit for Big Gun stations that operate primarily in Run mode; but
helpful at Little Pistol stations (like mine) on crowded bands in Search&Pounce
mode. Works in both RTTY and CW operation.
Comments welcome.
-larry (K8UT)
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