[Waverley ARS] Remembrance Day contest

Adam Carmichael carneeki at carneeki.net
Sun Jul 29 00:50:40 UTC 2007


Brad Crowe wrote:
> I was surprised to see some of the rule changes....repeat contacts 
> are now allowed on HF after two hours....also double points between 
> one am and six am.  Both of these I believe are good and will 
> encourage and reward the night owls out there.
I believe I left my coffee grinder at the club (not sure); I'll continue 
to leave it there though for the competition and gladly offer to help 
any graveyard shift, be it QSOing, caffeining, or technical stuffs.

> I have not been a part of multi operator station in the RD 
> contest...multi operator is a different category to single operator 
> as there is an expectation that multi-operators will have greater 
> capability to score than a single operator station....maybe we could 
> plan to see that we do take advantage as this is probably what others 
> do....suggest dedicated data entry operators (penciller)?...possibly 
> cockatoos to scan other bands for stations not worked?...perhaps a 
> networked PC so the cockatoos can check for dupes?...spare tubes for 
> the finals?...band pass filters?...Laurie's multi headphone setup is essential.
Interesting idea Brad!

Does the club want me to start designing some sort of multiuser (ie 
networked) applet to aid the main operator in QSO and QSY operations?

Regards,

Adam

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