Neal, I'm taking a break fro IARU and I'll give you my 'style'
I contest two handed.
One on the mouse, and left hand with a Griffin placed just left of the
keyboard.
and I use both
Griffin and mouse.
Normally, if S&P, I just just mouse/right hand to scroll down the band map
in Writelog, either clicking on a cluster spot or actually scrolling via the
mouse.
Major excursion across the band are done with the Griffin.
Push Down on Griffin and you can speed up your scroll.
Left hand hits the Buffer Fkeys on the keyboard.
In both rtty or cw contesting, I keep the bandpass NARROW.
And if the programmers are reading this.
250hz wide is too large for crowded cw and 100 is too narrow.
So I use a VAR1 of about 150hZ, as that gives me the the station I want, and
also lets me know if he tends to listen off freq.
In rtty, I use the 250hz filter.
Note for programmers, I find it difficult to adjust the width with the mouse
slider.
I end up bumping the Low/High numbers witht he up/down arrows.
Also find that the Tune steps need a 5Hz step and should have buttons in
addition to the -/+
Maybe a 'user set 3 buttons.
Writelog works well with PWSDR, the only gotcha ...is the 'focus' issue.
But I've gotten pretty good at realizing where the mouse is and what has
focus.
(griffin needs focus on PWSDR to function)
Wish there was a way to lock the Griffin on PWSDR.
This cw contest, I played with using the equalizer to tighten the cw
pitch/background noise to my moderate employment loss of hearing.
Give that a try, it really helps the fatique level.
"It's not just your fathers pig farmer equalizer"
It really helps with cw also.
As the Marin County Sundancers said..."I'm not interested in sounding good.
I'm interested in sounding LOUD."
(I may have dated myself with that last paragraph.)
- Original Message -
From: "Neal Campbell K3NC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FlexRadio List"
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 5:11 PM
Subject: [SPAM] [Flexradio] Contesting practices?
> Hi all
>
> Thankfully, after 6 years of very bad back health, I am becoming
> able to sit for hours at a time and am starting to enjoy S&P action
> in cw and rtty contests. I played a few hours last weekend in the DL
> RTTY contest (a real treat btw) and did some this weekend in the IARU.
>
> Last weekend I started using the SDR1K and just didn't feel very
> comfortable so switched over to my Orion2. After a while I figured I
> might as well figure out how to use the SDR1K in contests so switched
> back over.
>
> I decided to use the amplifier this weekend and had the usual
> experiments to get RF out of the chain. The most success I had was to
> use the radioshack isolators and more than a few ferrites.
>
> The question to the list is: What hints and tips do you have on
> contesting with the SDR? I have been playing some with the Shuttlepro
> but ultimately think the mouse is just as good (if not better since
> you already have it in your hand). I never got the hotwheel program
> to send the mouse wheel commands to PowerSDR, does anyone have any
> tips on how to make it work. Its not less disruptive to make the
> powersdr window active versus the old manual action of turning the
> tuning knob of the radio, but if hotwheels could work, it would be
> very very nice.
>
> For S&P action, do you point and shoot or do you "mouse wheel" your
> way thru the bands. Do you use narrow (e.g., 250hz) filters or keep
> them wide?
>
> How does the SDR act when you are running? Anything to watch out for?
>
> I am getting more comfortable every hour but it is definitely
> different than with using an old-style rig!
>
> Neal Campbell K3NC
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