[CQ-Contest] RE: Phone Phollies

[Eric Hilding]

Ward, N0AX admonished against:

 > 4) Using digital numbers.
 > It...sounds...like...a...bad...phone...menu...system.  Don't do it.  Just
 > use DVK for CQs and the stuff that doesn't change.

Due to a throat infection, using digital EVERYTHING was the ONLY way I 
could work the phone contest on Saturday.  I had over-trimmed many of my 
test pre-recorded files, and unfortunately was unable to pre-record the 
intended batch of fullcallsign.wav AND fullserialnumber.wav files.  Once 
that task is done before next year's SS, you simply will not be able to 
tell it's automation...except for a small percentage of non-regular SS 
entrants.

Thankfully, not speaking at all on Saturday and the continued work of the 
antibiotics let me work 10 hours of SS as "Norway SIX Indiana Jones" on 
Sunday ... my automation stuff crapped out and I forced myself to go "live" 
rather than wimp out.  Amazingly, my voice held up...in spite of probably 
10,000 "CQ Contests" with NO DVK or .wav files. That was a b*tch ;-(

However, I did work a couple of others who used 
auto...serial...number...files...but they were slower with more spacing and 
actually sounded decent compared to my overly-tightened ones (ran out of 
time to fix the test files before the contest).

73...

Rick, K6VVA