[CQ-Contest] new logging program available

[RT Clay]

The program doesn't know at all what a new signal is. All it can tell you is that the new signal is one you have not identified/marked yet. It is up to the operator to listen and see what is there and mark it as a dupe or not. A "new" signal could just be a station cqing who moved to a different frequency. 

The program also has no way to tell if a marked call is suddenly replaced by a different callsign which just happens to be exactly on the same frequency. But over not too long of a time interval, there is a low probability of that happening.

It's open source if you want to go looking for the CW decoder :)

Tor
N4OGW

--- On Sat, 1/1/11, Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Steve London <n2icarrl at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] new logging program available
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Date: Saturday, January 1, 2011, 8:43 AM
> Tor,
> 
> When a new station shows up, please explain how your
> program knows if it is a 
> dupe without decoding CW ?
> 
> 73 and HNY,
> Steve, N2IC
> 
> On 12/31/2010 09:45 PM, RT Clay wrote:
> > I'm releasing a new contest logging program I've been
> working on for the last
> > year. Its name is so2sdr, and the general idea is to
> explore uses of SDR
> > technology for unassisted SO2R cw contesting. By
> unassisted, I mean that the
> > program DOES NOT DECODE any cw. It is freely available
> at:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/so2sdr/
> >
> > At this point although I have operated a while using
> the program, it is still
> > a work in progress, so expect to find bugs and things
> that are not complete.
> >
> > so2sdr features:
> >
> > -it is dual-platform, running under both Windows and
> Linux
> >
> > -a SDR panadapter is integrated into the bandmap for
> showing dupes/new
> > calls:
> >
> > Dupe qso's are marked on the bandmap in a different
> color. By actually
> > marking the signal traces, it becomes easy to see
> potential new stations on a
> > band---they stand out immediately (see screenshot at
> above web page). There
> > is no need to tune across a band sequentially, just
> jump around to new
> > signals.
> >
> > -logging interface is somewhat like trlog
> >
> >
> > Hardware (and specific contest) support is somewhat
> limited right now:
> >
> > -radios: Elecraft K3 and K2 -cw generation only via
> Winkey -SDR: soundcard
> > based SDR connected to rig IF (Softrock, LP-PAN, etc).
> 96 KHz stereo sampling
> > needed. One is needed for each radio. -parallel port
> for headphone/radio
> > switching
> >
> >
> >
> > have fun&  HNY! You can send bug reports to
> so2sdr (at) gmail.com
> >
> > Tor N4OGW/5
> >
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