Hi guys I had a great time playing around in the RTTY contest this weekend with the new radio. It was a great learning experience. The integration of hot wheels with RCKLog was seamless and I never felt a lack of "focus" at least from a program perspective.
I defined filter buttons for Digi-L at 350, 500, 1K and 2K widths centered around 2125Hz which normally is what works great in dx'ing. The panadapter was tremendous during the contest. Rtty signals look like CW signals dancing a hula dance (I use averaging on the panadapter) and I could easily spot cw from rtty on 40m for instance. It was also very easy to see where any gaps existed so I could plant myself down and do a run for a while. The trap I fell into Saturday was that I could easily find 400 hz clear on 20 to park myself and call cqww and not hear anyone on either side but obviously no one could hear me very well. Since I wasn't really competing, I didn't try to move anyone away so I could have wider berth but its a trap I probably wasted an hour or so fighting. Using the Eltima virtual serial port drivers I never experienced the "Lost contact with transceiver" message I used to get. That was nice. Ran 1400+ watts the entire time and never saw any symptoms of RF entering anywhere in the computing chain. I saw 2 occurrences where I would xmit and I would not get any audio from the rx. Panadapter also reflected no signals. I would go standby then start and all would resume normally. Not sure what band I was on when it happened but will look for it in the future. Maybe we should form a flex contesters club so we can enter all of us in one team for the upcoming contests! Neal Campbell K3NC [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnet to our DX Spotting clusters at: dxc.k3nc.com, ports 12001 and 23 "Devoted to Dogs: How to be your dog's best owner" Great Dog Book at www.abrohamneal.com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
