[UK-CONTEST] Logging Programs/Audio Recording

[G3SJJ]

Yes, I would agree Don, recording for the purpose of checking the
log before submission is definately out as far as I am concerned and
I wouldn't want this discussion to go down those lines.

What really sparked my interest was Bob's (G3ZEM/5B4AGN) talk
a couple of years back at the HF Convention when he included some
audio clips of pile-up QSOs made using Writelog I believe.

Occasionally either during DX working or in a contest it would be useful
to have recorded something and be able to play it back later on or e-mail
a small file to the other station. Recently in the IOTA Contest, we had an
amusing exchange with a VK along the lines of :

EU114, what island is that?
Guernsey
Guernsey, where the hell's that? etc

Most amusing at the time. Another one that comes to mind is when I called
Tim
M0BEW for our EU005 mult on 40m and he comes back " Wow, you are LOUD"
Obviously other things like working VK6VZ/HD in the 1.8Meg (as we say now!)
contest would be nice to have stored.

Seems to me that many people could benefit, not only contesters, which is
why I put
out the request. Maybe Robert ANT mght consider doing something?

73 Chris



> Chris/everyone,
>
> I can't admit to recording contests here but, like you, would be
interested
> in the approach although I feel that it is a little against the spirit of
> the contest - surely it is the skilll of the operator "live" that should
be
> the measure of success. Of course this is a slippery slope - if you
support
> post-contest log scrutiny for busted calls etc etc, then it is only one
> further step to recording and using that as a check ! I would agree that a
> recording could be very useful as a learning tool post-contest, but
> personally I'm opposed to using it to check the log.
>
> I think using the hard disc would be very "hard" on the disc, even with a
> RAM-disc specified. ON my system (and old,slow, pentium) it would also
slow
> things down a bit too much !
>
> At WRTC96, the organisers recorded all entries (not sure if they ever used
> the tapes). They used domestic video recorders running at (I think) a
> quarter of the normal speed (US LP setting ?) which gave, at that time, 8
> hours per tape. A bit "old technology" but an interesting approach.
>
> 73
>
> Don, G3BJ