I've been watching this thread for a few days now as it brings to mind an article , QST I think(?), that I believe was printed in an April issue (natch!) some time in the mid to late fifties. However, I have been unable to find it. It was, I believe about a ham tech guru who did what we have been seeing here. The ending was precious as expected from April articles, and discussed an antenna in a restricted neighborhood that reeled in and out, vertically, when transmitting. There were comments about this helping eliminate key clicks. Also, with tongue in cheek (even for April) discussed the potential encounter with a game warden if the antenna should happen to spear a goose out of season.
Jim - W4YXU ________________________________ From: Peter G. Viscarola <pete...@osr.com> To: flexradio Reflector <FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz> Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 9:51:25 AM Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Fully Automated, robotic? > > It's interesting to note that only 5 Xtreme category logs have been > submitted out of >5500 total log submissions so far and <0.1% > participation seems to indicate little interest in this category. > Being at the top of 5 total entries doesn't thrill me but it would be > easy to win a plaque since there's so little competition. > Have people actually written "fully automated" robotic contest exchange software? If so, as a software engineer, I'd love to see it and see how it's done. Even though contest exchanges are pretty well circumscribed, I think it would STILL be difficult to automate the exchange with a high degree of reliability, given QRM/QRN, the variability in callsign signatures, requests for retransmits, etc. It's an interesting natural language parsing problem, which I admit is not my field of expertise any more than signal processing. But interesting nonetheless, Peter K1PGV _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to jb...@bellsouth.net _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
