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

[John Geiger]

Didn't AEA also offer "awards" you could get like DXCC and WAZ based on the
stations you "worked' using Dr. DX?

73 John AF5CC

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 9:09 PM N4ZR <n4zr at comcast.net> wrote:

> 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
> Check out the Reverse Beacon Network
> at <http://reversebeacon.net>, now
> spotting RTTY activity worldwide.
> For spots, please use your favorite
> "retail" DX cluster.
>
> 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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