[CQ-Contest] Dayton Report -- Scrolling LED signs

[Ellen White, W1YL]

W4ZW of the Florida Contest Group was sporting two, one honoring K4OJ.


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W1YL/4 "ln"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zack Widup" <w9sz at prairienet.org>
To: "CQ Contest" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Dayton Report -- Scrolling LED signs


> On Tue, 18 May 2004, WW3S wrote:
>
> > The one at Dayton were from www.dabadge.com and were selling for the
same
> > price on their web site...29.95 or 39.95 if you want the programming
> > interface....the two kids ( ok, maybe not kids but couldn't have been
more
> > than early twenties) made a small fortune....
> >
>
> I'm curious about these.  Did anyone on this reflector buy one?
>
> I looked at the website for "dabadge" and a few others and, of course,
> they give no technical info on the badges.  I wonder what kind of device
> they use in them.  I've become a very good PIC programmer and I'm now
> getting my feet wet with Atmel AVR programming.  Atmel makes a similar
> type device they call the "AVR Butterfly" which has an LCD display rather
> than an LED display.  It's about $20 from Digi-Key.
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
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