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

[N4ZR]

Does anyone know the identity of the programmer?  Seems that if source 
code were available it should be possible to recompile for Windows 
without too much difficulty.

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 9/30/2020 8:57 AM, Richard F DiDonna NN3W 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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