Good Job Neal I did similar but a lazy effort here. Your right about the panadaptor. If S&P, just keep scrolling down the band map. I used Writelog, only issue I had was that FSK cluster spots were always 2.1 off my dial readout. So just scroll down and I found them. I 'run' using both vfo's Call cq on vfoB and tune in of freq replies with mouse using vfoA. I had some pretty good runs on 40. Especially when someone spotted me....but again, my call would show up on the bandmap 2.1 higher than the SDR said I was at.
Great trick is to Save the freqs of the vfos, and then if you tuned vfoa off a ways for someone, just click on Restore and your right back in exact transcieve. I set the panadaptor to 4X Max, that really gives me a good idea of open spaces between signals that I could plant my cq signal. Had fun, was high in 60706 again for the 20th straight contest (only 3 other active hams, and they are both shackondabelt types) BTW: picked up 2 new band/mode slots with the 40 and a KP2, both on 80 rtty. (I already got the 4O qsl via LoTW this morning) On 10/1/2007 3:32:07 PM, Neal Campbell K3NC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > 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" _______________________________________________ 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/
