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A couple of audio cables from the spare AF sockets of each radio (fixed
level pref, eg. phone patch socket on the 1000mp) to a sterio jack suitable
to go to the line in/mic input of the sound card.
Radio1 - left - Radio2 -right.
Download a sound recorder, which there are dozens of freeware programs on
the net. Try a search looking for wav recorders.
Record a stereo sound file using the line in/mic input as the source.
To choose which radio you want to listen to when playing back shift the
balance between left or right or to listen to both centre.
Anybody who is QRV for soundcard digi modes are already set up.

Of course Windows has it's own sound recorder built in but it only has a
default record time of 30 secs.
This is perfect for recording soundbites of qso's with DX or amusing
hecklers.
What I have done here is,
Created a shortcut from the windows sound recorder .exe, changed the
properties and given it a keyboard shortcut of CTRL-ALT-S. Then when ever
I'm active and need to make a quick recording no matter what window program
I have running I can hit the keyboard short cut. This brings up the windows
sound recorder, hit the space bar and it start recording, hit space and it
stops. All very simple and even no mouse needed.

>surely it is the skilll of the operator "live" that should be
the measure of success.

Yes I fully agree.
Although software now takes an enormous amount of 'live' out now, doesnt it?

Dupe checking, although cabrillo has eliminated this
DVK / cw keyers
Super check partials
Call checks for needed mults by band.
Band maps.
Automatic antenna switches.
TR allows you bounce a cq between radios so u can run a freq on 2 bands at
the same time. I've heard ton of people doing this one.
Automatic insertion of exchanges, eg zones in cqww, states when a further
qso is made with the same station in ARRL.

Don't misunderstand me I'm not saying that any of these things are wrong. It
also takes great 'live' skill from the operator to use these things as well.
But there's a vast difference between 'basic' operating practices as we know
it now and doing cqww cw with a paddle, a pen and some paper?
Is this the next step?

Interestingly, I've post checked most of my EUHFC log with the recording I
made, and honestly can say it's hardly worth bothering. All the qso's that
the software said were dupes were, and there were a few exchanges that may
have been copied wrong but were un-verifiable from the recording as well.

On the whole I don't really see the point of post checking to this degree if
you are planning on submitting a log. Your only be fooling yourself.
Going on my own experiences, my UBN from CQWW was poor. I got dinged I think
on 2 DX mults, not in log. I probably half completed the qso and tuned off
and missed the station asking for a fill, me not being there he must have
wiped it.
I was careless, and it cost me.  It won't happen again.
I don't think I would remember this as vividly as I do if I had messed
around post checking.

Tim-M0BEW.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim-M0BEW" <m0bew at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "UK-Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] Logging Programs


> > How about an article for RadCom Tim?
>
> I don't know about an article, it's such a simple thing to set up. Besides
> my written English is appauling.
> I imagine it would work fine from a DOS window, but boot to DOS software
???
> I'm far to young to remember how DOS works ...
> From Windows it's simple.
> A couple of audio cables from the spare AF sockets of each radio (fixed
> level pref, eg. phone patch socket on the 1000mp) to a sterio jack
suitable
> to go to the line in/mic input of the sound card.
> Radio1 - left - Radio2 -right.
> Download a sound recorder, which there are dozens of freeware programs on
> the net. Try a search looking for wav recorders.
> Record a strero sound file using the line in/mic input as the source.
> To choose which radio you want to listen to when playing back shift the
> balance between left or right or to listen to both centre.
> Anybody who is QRV for soundcard digi modes are already set up.
>
> Of course Windows has it's own sound recorder built in but it only has a
> default record time of 30 secs.
> This is perfect for recording soundbites of qso's with DX or amusing
> hecklers.
> What I have done here is,
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "G3SJJ" <g3sjj at btinternet.com>
> To: "UK-Contest" <uk-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 3:48 PM
> Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Logging Programs
>
>
> Relaxing over the weekend with a copy of NCJ, I was reading an ad for
miLOG
> by Ham Toys, (must say neither name are particularly inspiring). Shades of
> spudulike, toysrus etc, yuk. I wonder if anyone has any experience of this
> program. It claims to cator for all major contest formats with ethernet
and
> serial interfaces and with a Special Server(?) can connect up to 25 pcs.
>
> Writelog seems to be gaining popularity so I reckon that is worth looking
at
> also. I am correct that you can reserve a serial number on one networked
> computer whilst running on another?
>
> On another tack, Tim M5ACC/M0BEW mentioned about digitally recording
> contests. Assuming that Tim's "most of us" equates to about 1% of UK
> contesters who record their contests, it would be interesting to learn
more
> about this. How about an article for RadCom Tim?
>
> Chris G3SJJ
>
>
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