How did you set that up to find 01.wav when you only put 01 in the string.
If you put <ANYFILENAME> ,NOTE THE <> delimiters,then it gives an infinite
number of strings to use but of course only 10 keys to do it on. Maybe that
is the problem?
I agree we need MANY more of those for voice.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: writelog-admin@contesting.com
> [mailto:writelog-admin@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Steve L.
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 3:50 PM
> To: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: [WriteLog] Moron alert!
>
>
> I'm a CW contester, OK?
> I hate SSB and especially SSB contesting, OK?
> I'm also a moron, here's my pitiful story:
>
> I had some fabulous 'me time' (unemployed engineer) so
> I configured my full-blown SO2R setup for SSB
> contesting. It was really fun, setting it all up and
> making little interface boxes with transformers and
> getting it working and recording .wav files and all
> that stuff. Except I don't think there are nearly
> enough function keys for SSB to send pre-recorded
> strings.
>
> My Brilliant Idea was to record whole phrases like you
> might have to say in a real contest like "is this
> frequency in use?" and "please repeat your section"
> and to name them 00.wav, 01.wav, 02.wav, etc. I
> programmed one of the function keys to speak whatever
> was in the callsign box at that time, normally the
> other guy's call. If I typed in '01' it would go find
> '01.wav' and say that phrase. '01' doesn't appear in
> any legit callsign in a domestic contest and rarely in
> a DX contest anyway.
>
> Ooooh, I spent days and days and days planning,
> recording and processing .wav files, it was really
> great. The goal: to never say a word into the mic the
> entire contest.
>
> Sooooo...... SSB SS started and I was whipping them
> out on 10m.
>
> UNTIL MY OUTGOING NUMBER WAS 10. (did you see this
> coming?)
>
> Then it said:
>
> "W4KFC, number THIS FREQUENCY IS IN USE B N4SL 72 WWA"
>
> oh. It saw the 10.wav and spoke it instead of saying
> "one zero"
>
> My wife bet me I wouldn't last an hour, I lasted 11
> minutes. I owe her sushi tonight.
>
> So, I know I'm not the only fool to try this but maybe
> I'm the only fool to actually get into the contest
> with it and discover the failure. Back to CW.
>
> We really need more SSB strings, may I suggest some
> alternate keystroke method of recording strings so we
> can use the Shift-F to get at another set of messeges
> like in CW? May I even suggest three banks of them?
>
> 73, Steve N4SL Machias, WA CN88xa
>
>
>
>
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