[CQ-Contest] 40 Meters SSB

Steve London n2icarrl at gmail.com
Thu May 7 17:43:00 EDT 2015



On 05/07/2015 03:13 PM, Oliver Dröse wrote:
> Albert,
>
>> The software should be progrmmed to catch this nonsense because the logs
>> of both stations should reflect the transmitting frequency. If theUSA station's
>> log does not reflect the correct transmitting frequency, then the logshould be
>> considered a check log. In this age of ham radio software being freeor at a very
>> low cost, there is no reasonable excuse for not indicating thetransmit frequency.
>
> While the idea might be okay I have yet to see one contest software that
> is writing the transmit frequency into the Cabrillo file.

This is because of the way various radios report the current frequency 
transmit and receive frequencies at the moment a QSO is logged. For 
example, Kenwood's will report RX and TX frequencies differently when 
the radio is transmitting, than when the radio is receiving.

73,
Steve, N2IC


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