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

[Richard F DiDonna NN3W]

Thanks Doug.  Perhaps N2RJ can upload a 15 or 20 minute demo of what Doctor
DX actually does.  I know you've got 1) work, 2) family, 3) rona, and 4)
radio (including ARRL duties), but a video showing how crazy this program
is might enlighten those who never got to play.

Ill say this again - for software (umm...hardware?) written in the mid 80s,
it was probably 30 years ahead of its time.  K8KA (SK?) did a review of
Doctor DX in the December 1984 edition of QST and Randy K5ZD did a review
in the November 1984 NCJ.


73 Rich NN3W

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 8:20 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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