Well Al I just happen to do a lot in fact my other hobbies put a good 10 year delay on my making the Honor roll :).. I was in the woods at 6pm this morning and even got 1 on 1 with nature after falling in the swamp :)... I need the exercise :).. Its an either or situation here and im sure there are the few that want the rotor parking deal. me I could care less simply because ive never spent the big bucks to interface my rotor to my computer. Ive always had this thing about money ?.. If I can hit the brake release and turn the antenna to the direction of the dx then why spend extra money for interface stuff? It worked years ago and it still works for me.. Having the program turn the antenna tune the radio and amp and use a cw memory keyer or a voice keyer that can recognize your call prolly isnt too far off but id bet the ARRL would frown on it for dxcc accreditation but how would they find out ? Oh Well. Dave N8DC
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Leith" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 1:52:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Suggestions for dxbase 2010 Already much of the fun has been taken away from ham radio by these new fangled radios that do everything but wash the dishes. The least you can do once the rig goes to the spotted frequency is to immediately split the frequencies and tune around for the pile-up instead of going to the QSX frequency that's been spotted and adding your signal to the hoard who've already started calling without knowing if they can hear the DX. And what, in the name of all that is good and holy, is the point of having the antenna turn to the spotted direction if you're in NJ and the spotting station is in CA? No wonder we're a people of obesity. We don't do anything for ourselves any more. 73 Al, VE1AL -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Dougherty Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:05 PM To: [email protected]; 'DXBase Reflector' Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Suggestions for dxbase 2010 Well, the tongue-in-cheekiness aside, there is actually some serious merit to combining parts A, B and C. Right now, if you click a spot you QSY the radio and set the mode - that's it (and QSX may be entered if formatted correctly in the spot). I'd like to suggest that if you double-click a spot that the following happens: Radio VFO A set to the DX's transmit frequency and mode, VFO-B sets the split if into is found (and allow for shortcuts such as QSX 204 = 7204, not 204 kHz), populate the call in the Callsign field, auto-populate other fields from supplied info and turn the antenna(s) to their short-path bearing. If the spot contains the string "LP," then set the antenna to the Long Path bearing, but maybe have this feature user-settable in the setup menus. In other words, all ya gotta do is double-click and make the contact. ----------------------------------- Regards, Peter, W2IRT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Larry E Price Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:31 AM To: 'DXBase Reflector' Subject: [Dxbase] Suggestions for dxbase 2010 Namely, once the program [A]correctly identifies (not through the user tuning the bands with an actual receiver but through electronic aides) that a "needed entity" (love that term), is on the air, [B] QSY's the rig to the proper frequency (because the correct radio.ini file is enabled) [C] aims the antenna to the proper path [D] had a QSO with the station using the properly interfaced keyer {either Morse or voice synthesizer or on of 69 other distinctive modes} [E] logs the entity using the correct DXCC 'prefix' [F] confirms the contact my uploading the logs.. ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
