[VHFcontesting] Ready for January VHF SS?

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:16:57AM -0500, Hoffman, Mark wrote:
> Those were the internal PBX station to station intercoms. 

Ah, I guess intercoms would make sense - although in the many multiops 
I've done, I've never seen intercoms used like that.

> I'll betcha there's a telephone in EVERY bloody shack in America, too.

Perhaps, but you never see them right next to the keyboard and radios 
during a contest, and having telephones as part of a setup in a trailer 
in the yard seemed odd to me, too.  Naturally, one can look at that and be 
suspicious about their use for making skeds during the contest with other 
stations.  I know this used to happen all the time in the northeast before
people began to realize that the telephone should not be a part of radio
contesting.

I think the videos were great, though.  I can easily imagine certain 
local guys making their own videos like that someday, too :-)  Maybe
without the snow, though...

> Next thing, It'll be questioning the HF radio as the IF. They CAN be used on
> HF for bad things during a VHF contest, right?
> 
> Mark, K2AXX
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth E. Harker [mailto:kharker at cs.utexas.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 10:49 PM
> To: Ev Tupis (W2EV)
> Cc: VHF Contesting eMail Remailer
> Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Ready for January VHF SS?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:18:34PM -0500, Ev Tupis (W2EV) wrote:
> > If not...maybe this will help:
> > http://VHFGroup.RochesterNY.org | Downloads
> > Broadband users should try the "Medium" bandwidth version.
> > Dial-up users should try the "Low" bandwidth version.
> > 
> > This is streaming video of the "N2JMH psycho rover" from last January and
> the
> > "N2WK megamultiop" from several years ago in June.  Be sure to have the
> volume
> > on your PC speakers turned UP. :))
> 
> Very intersting.
> 
> There seems to be a telephone next to every keyboard at the N2WK multi.
> Even the stations set up in trailers in the yard have telephones.  I'm 
> sure those phones weren't actually used in the contest, right? :-)
> 
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> Department of the Computer Sciences          Central Texas DX & Contest Club
> Taylor Hall TAY 2.124                         Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
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Kenneth E. Harker      "Vox Clamantis in Deserto"      kharker at cs.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin                   Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences          Central Texas DX & Contest Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124                         Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA            http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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