[TRLog] Ten Minute Rule
Pete Smith
n4zr@contesting.com
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 02:01:00 -0500
At 08:57 AM 1/15/01 -0800, Tree N6TR wrote:
>
>> And for those of us whose rates are a bit lower than most, replace the band
>> change counter with or add an option to select a "seconds since last QSO"
>> counter.
>>
>> Now, to me, THAT's important info.
>
>A new feature for version 3.14159 will be SECONDS TO NEXT QSO. This
>should help a lot for planning those 29 minute breaks.
Getting semi-serious again for a minute, I find the 5 QSOs in the editable
window to be a very useful tool for tracking my instantaneous rate, more so
than the rate counter with its lag. When the times top-to-bottom are 2
minutes or less different, I find that easy to translate to "cookin'."
73, Pete N4ZR
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