[CQ-Contest] contest spots/this weekends antenna work

[Jim Reisert]

--- Jim White <k4oj at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Like K5KG I find myself using packet during several contests and whenever I
> tune past a station as he signs I type in his callsign...if it is a dupe
> rather than just F11 I hit Alt-F3 (think that is it) to spot that station to
> the cluster...mebbe the next guy will not stop there as it pops up on his
> band map!  I know I will spot the same guy many times during a contest...but
> I do not keep mental note of this - that is what the machines are for.


The "machines" also have a band map which will tell you if the station has been
spotted recently.  I don't spot stations that are still in my band map.  This
keeps the number of redundant spots down.

73 - Jim AD1C


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Jim Reisert AD1C, 7 Charlemont Court, North Chelmsford, MA 01863
USA +978-251-9933, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.com

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