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

[Kenneth Wolff]

Dr DX was a lot of fun, but it could be gamed. Set your keyer speed to 100
wpm and CQ <your call> the instant it starts sending you a report. I
consistently went over 500 qsos per hour. I don't know who programmed it,
but (s)he was great!

Ken , K1EA

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 2:51 PM Richard F DiDonna NN3W <richnn3w at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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