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 [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/
