[CQ-Contest] Contest Software support for VFO B?

Thu Sep 26 19:11:32 EDT 2002

I'm not sure about the 850 Ron, but I'll forward your question to Tom 
Wagner.  I'm using an MP and played a little with N1MMLogger to see if it 
would do a few things I've always wished WriteLog would do.  One thing I 
found with N1MMLogger is that instantly swapping back and forth between VFO 
A and VFO B bandmaps (while enabling transmit on that vfo) and turning dual 
receive on and off is a nifty tool to have in the toolbox.

73,
Barry N1EU

>From: "Ron D. Rossi" <rrossi at btv.ibm.com>
>
>I would like to know how he does that for a Kenwood TS-850? There is no
>control of the B VFO mode via RS-232. Otherwise I
>would consider an option to have band map data written to the B VFO 
> >instead of always the A VFO.
>
> > I've been wondering if N1MMLogger is the only contesting software that
> > provides both VFO-A and VFO-B bandmaps and thus the ability to send a 
>packet
> > spot directly to VFO-B?

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>From Tom Wagner" <tom at n1mm.com  Thu Sep 26 23:58:07 2002
From: Tom Wagner" <tom at n1mm.com (Tom Wagner)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 18:58:07 -0400
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contest Software support for VFO B?
References: <F247TmReozTIAw19DBq000099a4 at hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <00ee01c265b0$2f5a6d20$0300a8c0 at snet.net>

I own a TS-850.  Yes, it is possible to control vfo b from the
rs-232 port.  Why do you say one can't?

73,
Tom Wagner - N1MM
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry N1EU" <n1eu at hotmail.com>
To: <rrossi at btv.ibm.com>
Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 18:11
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Software support for VFO B?

> I'm not sure about the 850 Ron, but I'll forward your question to Tom
> Wagner.  I'm using an MP and played a little with N1MMLogger to see if it
> would do a few things I've always wished WriteLog would do.  One thing I
> found with N1MMLogger is that instantly swapping back and forth between
VFO
> A and VFO B bandmaps (while enabling transmit on that vfo) and turning
dual
> receive on and off is a nifty tool to have in the toolbox.
>
> 73,
> Barry N1EU
>
>
> >From: "Ron D. Rossi" <rrossi at btv.ibm.com>
> >
> >I would like to know how he does that for a Kenwood TS-850? There is no
> >control of the B VFO mode via RS-232. Otherwise I
> >would consider an option to have band map data written to the B VFO
> > >instead of always the A VFO.
> >
> > > I've been wondering if N1MMLogger is the only contesting software that
> > > provides both VFO-A and VFO-B bandmaps and thus the ability to send a
> >packet
> > > spot directly to VFO-B?
>
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>From Tom Wagner" <tom at n1mm.com  Fri Sep 27 00:01:19 2002
From: Tom Wagner" <tom at n1mm.com (Tom Wagner)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:01:19 -0400
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Contest Software support for VFO B?
References: <200209261954.PAA26274 at barium.btv.ibm.com>
Message-ID: <00fc01c265b0$a1c532a0$0300a8c0 at snet.net>

Open any modem program to the Kenwood serial port and
send

FB00007000000;

to it.  It will tune vfo b to 7 MHz.

Tom Wagner - N1MM
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron D. Rossi" <rrossi at btv.ibm.com>
To: "Barry N1EU" <n1eu at hotmail.com>
Cc: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 15:54
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Contest Software support for VFO B?

>
> I would like to know how he does that for a Kenwood TS-850? There is no
> control of the B VFO mode via RS-232. Frequency is okay though. Otherwise
I
> would consider an option to have band map data written to the B VFO
instead of
> always the A VFO.
>
> --
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>
> >>>"Barry N1EU" said:
> > I've been wondering if N1MMLogger is the only contesting software that
> > provides both VFO-A and VFO-B bandmaps and thus the ability to send a
packet
> > spot directly to VFO-B?  Appreciate any help from users familiar with
the
> > various software out there.
> >
> > Thanks & 73,
> >
> > Barry N1EU
> > www.albany.net/~bg
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>From Sylvan Katz <jskatz at sk.sympatico.ca>  Fri Sep 27 00:43:19 2002
From: Sylvan Katz <jskatz at sk.sympatico.ca> (Sylvan Katz)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:43:19 -0600
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Re: ARRL Discrimination
References: <000901c2657e$395bd700$0100a8c0 at joe>
 <0f4001c26590$ad8d4d90$6400a8c0 at selfsimilar>
 <000901c2659e$04841b80$0100a8c0 at joe>
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Kelly,

>in the world who truly are victims of discrimination. Someone has to pay
the
>bills and I see nothing wrong with giving the people who do pay the bills
>the right to a perk like early posting of contest results.

With all due respect it seems that something has gone unnoticed.

Not only do the contesters need the sponsors but the sponsors need the
contestants. The sponsor pays with money and voluteener time while the
contestants pay with enthusiasm and their participation time.

I believe that in this sort of symbiotic relationship all contestants should
be treated equally. All contestants have the right to know their standing in
a contest at the same time -- irrespective of whether or not they are a
member of the sponsoring community. However, the sponsors, I believe, have
every right to charge for a value-added service fee (subscription) for such
things as color commentary,  statistics and other analysis, etc they can
create from the activities of the contestants.

The current approach has the appearance that there is a parasitic
relationship between the contestant and the sponsor instead of a symbiotic
one. I believe is not a good image for the amateur radio community as a
whole.

.. sylvan

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