[CQ-Contest] Dr. DX

Gerry Hull gerry at yccc.org
Tue Dec 17 10:15:16 EST 2013


Check out http://bbcyber.com/cybertest.htm

This sounds just like DR DX but for Windows.  It looks to be a little
long-in-the-tooth -- running only on 32-bit windows.

I've not used it but it seems like it has a lot of DR DX like features.


73, Gery W1VE


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Pete Smith N4ZR <n4zr at contesting.com>wrote:

> VE3NEA's Pileup Runner <http://dxatlas.com/PileupRunner/> should also be
> mentioned here.  Its one significant deficiency as a pileup trainer, IMO,
> is that it does not have any provision for "tuning the receiver" other than
> to click on a waterfall trace.  I find that my optimum pileup technique is
> to tune minimally with the RIT and work everyone I can quickly, and
> only*then* tune elsewhere in the pileup.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network at
> http://reversebeacon.net,
> blog at reversebeacon.blogspot.com.
> For spots, please go to your favorite
> ARC V6 or VE7CC DX cluster node.
>
>
> On 12/17/2013 7:56 AM, Richard F DiDonna NN3W wrote:
>
>> For those of you who have not seen Dr. DX, here is a screen shot from a
>> presentation done at Dayton in 2005.
>>
>>  http://www.kkn.net/dayton2005/Who%20needs%20sunspots.pdf
>>
>> 73 Rich NN3W
>>
>> On 12/16/2013 3:39 PM, kr2q at optimum.net wrote:
>>
>>> I don't remember the year, but I used Dr. DX at Dayton, out in the one
>>> the convention center
>>> areas.
>>>
>>> They didn't have much of a pileup (people), but I gave it a try.
>>>
>>> For those who never got to play with it, you would set your call
>>> (location) and go.  It "knew"
>>> what the bands (all of them) should be like for YOUR location (including
>>> DX) for that time of day.
>>>
>>> So if you set it up for east coast USA and went to 80m at local noon
>>> time, the band was dead.
>>> But if you went to 80 at, say 10pm local time, it was hopping, including
>>> QRM and static crashes.
>>> But if you went to 10m at 10pm local time, hissssssssssssssssssssssssssss
>>> sssss.
>>>
>>> I remember one guy set it up as if his call were an HS.  All he had were
>>> JA callers on 20m at whatever
>>> time he had set it up for.  Pretty cool stuff.
>>>
>>> And you "tuned the band" to find DX too. It was the BEST contest
>>> simulator I've ever experienced.
>>>
>>> Too bad there isn't something like that now with a windows GUI. During
>>> crappy SFI, it
>>> was more fun than the actual contest (not sure if that would still hold
>>> true...activity has
>>> just gone through the roof compared to back then...no matter what).
>>>
>>> Bring it back....I'd buy one!
>>>
>>> de Doug KR2Q
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