[digitalradio] The Digitalradio Annual Awards: Best of 2005.

[Andrew J. O'Brien]

Best "new" digital mode  Olivia,  by Pawel Jalocha   Best supported digital related  software DXLab (suite)   Biggest disappointment of the year SCAMP.  Where did it go?   The "he must need something to do with his life " award :   Nick UT2UZ (MixW) .  So many modes, always adding new tricks, how does he have time to do other things?   Best digital modes interface = Microkeyer by Microham   Most promise for 2006 =  Softrock 40   Most under used =  ALE.  So much potential here guys, jump on the bandwagon!   Best Contests = TARA, they keep the small fish contests going very well.   Experimenters Award:  Bubba Net.  These folks will try anything once.  I wonder if they made a 2 tone Olivia contact yet?   Why Bother Award =   A tie between HF packet (get rid of it already! ) and the 80M RTTY NTS Net (..er dudes, twenty repeats of the messages should tell you that RTTY is not robust enough for traffic handling .   Not Grumpy Award =  Nick UT2UZ of MixW.  Replies politely , and personally, to people like me that lose their registration DLL!   Needs inventing in 2006-2007:  HF APRS with Olivia.   Where is the Soviet Union When you need it:   MixW.  We need a centralized distribution plan for this software!   Software to watch in 2006:  MultiPSK.  Improving and I suspect more things will come from this product in 2006.   Most Missed Digital Ham:  Larry W0ETC, SK.  A great guy and digital contest Elmer.   Only Good Thing About Katrina =  Knocked AA5AU of the air for a few weeks and gave others a chance in RTTY tests.   The "YEAH !!!!!" Award:  Sirius Satellite Radio for adding BBC Radio One and CBC Radio One to their digital line-up     Andy K3UK Owner Digitalradio.                       Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to   telnet://208.15.25.196/ Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ Looking for digital mode software?  Check the quick commerical free link below http://www.obriensweb.com/digimodes.html YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "digitalradio" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.