[CQ-Contest] Rotors and preset controller

[Martin , LU5DX]

Memorizing is a really good exercise that helps keep your brain cells
healthy.
When I was a kid I started memorizing prefixes of the DXCC list, then I
continued memorizing contest scores, records, etc.
Not sure if my brain cells are okay nowadays though, but at least I'm
trying to keep'em in good shape.

London taxi cab drivers are among the populations with the lowest figures
of Alzheimer's disease and a research indicates that this is so, because of
the complex relationships they constantly must establish between their
brain cells to keep all the intricate streets of London in their brains
"memory bank"

So don't be afraid of memorizing, it is just great exercise.
I would suggest memorizing not only short path beam heading but also long
path ones.

Vy 73

Martin, LU5DX







https://www.alz.org/downloads/facts_figures_2012.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17024677


On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 5:44 PM, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>wrote:

>
> Seriously??  You probably have memorized the callsign prefixes of close to
> 300 different countries ... keeping track of six heading numbers should be
> trivial by comparison and takes no greater number of mental steps than
> pushing buttons.
>
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
>
> On 3/26/2014 8:49 AM, Charles Harpole wrote:
>
>> I have use the HyGain DCU-1 rotor controller for twelve years of
>> contesting.  The presets are the things making it a gem.
>>
>> There are six buttons and each can be programmed for a specific heading.
>> Thus, when I want EU, I hit the "EU" button and don't think about my beam
>> heading again......  until I want "NA" or whatever.
>>
>> I am surprised that there appears not to be another rotor controller with
>> this obvious nice feature.  The Green Heron, for example, is a finely
>> crafted unit, but to use it, one has to think of 1. where do I want to
>> point, 2. what is that heading in degrees, and then 3. turn the knob to
>> that heading.
>>
>> That is more thinking than one needs to do in a contest.  I guess some
>> brave folks run their rotors from a computer command somehow, or even from
>> the radio directly (Yaesu).  I have too many rotor failures/ant problems
>> to
>> trust that level of automation, but I can understand this one DCU-1 unit,
>> standing alone and doing only one thing...  simple, simple, simple.
>>
>> 73
>>
>
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