[CQ-Contest] Doctor DX clone (if you never used it, you just don't "get it")

[Barry W2UP]

Agree.  It was an amzing product, especially considering the C64 only had
about 30K of RAM available for programming.  I guess Windoze is just too
inefficient to run it, with its gigabytes of RAM :-)

Barry W2UP

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 6:20 AM Douglas Zwiebel <dougzzz at gmail.com> wrote:

>  NN3W is right on target.
>
> The BEST (most impressive) feature for me was that it "knew" propagation
> (Rich said this).
>
> It was just so cool to work EU from "NJ" on the high bands as the "sun
> rose" and signals got stronger and more of them.  And if you went to 80m at
> high noon (as Rich also said), you got hiss.  LOL  Amazing!  Maybe my
> memory is embellishing things, but I think that "deep Russian" (UA0Y) on 20
> were "watery" too.
>
> I only sat with it at Dayton and there was a human pileup waiting, so I
> didn't sit there nearly as long as I would have liked to.  But in that
> short amount of time, wow.
>
> Clearly, those of us who used it, really remember it and remember it
> fondly.  I remember thinking that when the real bands are dead, this would
> be a lot more fun.
>
> OK, enough nostalgia.
>
> de Doug KR2Q
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