[VHFcontesting] REMINDER:CQWW VHF Contest and CU2QSO Pioneers

[Warren J. Walsh]

I still do not see how this is different from using PacketCluster, and 
therefore making the station ASSISTED mode!

Warren - K2BM

At 08:37 AM 7/18/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>A number of us have been experimenting with The BEACONet Project's CU2QSO 
>System
>on 147.585 FM.  The experiments have been going e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y well, I must
>say.  More on that in a future email.  First though...this is a note to those
>folks:  PLEASE CHANGE YOUR CONFIGURATION IF YOU ARE OPERATING IN THE CQWW-VHF
>CONTEST TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE SIMPLEX, UNASSISTED, AND UNASSISTING OF OTHERS!
>Failure to do so may subject you to disqualification...and that would be sad.
>
>Because of the few number of signals overall (CU2QSO and PropNET on this
>frequency is in it's infancy), some participants have setup their stations 
>to TX
>periodically and digipeat (so that others will have signals to plot and
>fine-tune their stations against).  While that's fine for now...the system
>operates legally ONLY if home-based participants LURK (RX-only) and are NOT
>setup to digipeat or to be digipeated by others.
>
>Make the following changes to your software, to assure VHF Contest 
>compliance of
>your system:
>
>Within UI-View...
>Setup | Station Setup
>   Unproto address = VK,RFONLY
>   Beacon interval (min) Fixed = 9999
>Setup | Digipeater Setup
>   Enable digi = [ ]   (blank)
>Action | Disconnect from APRS Server  (this option exists only if you
>                                        were connected to a central
>                                        server in the first place)
>
>By doing the above, your station will TX once...then not again for 9999 
>minutes
>(almost a full week).  If a CU2QSO equipped Rover enters simlex range, 
>they will
>appear as an icon on a map, and you may engage them in a keyboard-to-keyboard
>QSO to log them on 2-meters...then be sure to "run the bands" with them.
>
>Information on The BEACONet Project's CU2QSO system is available at:
>http://www.BEACONet.org under the hyperlink for CU2QSO.  There is now a
>text-based alternative hyperlink for those with slower Internet 
>connections (the
>primary site is heavily Flash grafic'd)...look for the hyperlink at the top.
>
>Best wishes and most of all...have fun!
>Ev Tupis,W2EV
>
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