Topband: Easy-to-learn 160 contest logging program?

[Bill Cromwell]

On 12/04/2013 07:15 PM, w7dra at juno.com wrote:
> logging program? same one i started with in 1955. paper and pencil. i
> went to a ball point pen for several years and found it did not help in
> upping my rate.
>
> this year i am going back to the rig i used to get VK flying doctors ball
> cap. i found out that any limbing the steep "better equipment ladder" has
> not increased my fun, enjoyment, or primitive animal excitement of making
> each contact one bit.
>
> yep, not one bit
>
> mike w7dra
>
> when was the last time i was in a contest, got up from the rig and raced
> up the hill to the house and shouted "I WORKED HAWAII!!"??
> to my sleeping bride....................
>
Heh Mike,

I have been logging on paper and afterward I type the stuff into a 
computer so the contest managers can have a pretty log that they can 
suck into their computers. Some of those contesters work hundreds or 
thousands of contacts ya know so that computer is kinda handy for the 
hams who have to sort it all out. I have been thinking about throwing 
all this stuff in the dumpster but maybe I'm making moves on simpler. I 
might not do all the same things as you ('specially not waking up my 
sleeping bride!) but it probably doesn't include typing on a computer 
while I'm twisting dials and knobs.

I found out the graphite in a pencil is a better lubricant than the ink 
on the ball bearing in a pen. It seems like it should be just the other 
way around. But I nearly started a fire in the shack using a ball point 
pen on paper (it's flammable ya know).

I have three transmitters with 160 meters on the bandswitch and not a 
darn one is usable at the moment. Can you spell o-l-d? I might get one 
up by the weekend but I stand a better chance of getting back on 160 by 
the time we have the Stew. Maybe it's just time to make a new 
transmitter and one without a derned bandswitch.

73,

Bill  KU8H