[Elecraft] OT: new concept/tool for cw DXing and contesting.

[Bill Coleman N2BC]

There may have been another article... but the one Jim describes is indeed 
QST May 1953 page 58.  Logging on an "IBM punch-card machine"    :-)

73, Bill N2BC


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Brandt" <zbear at worldnet.att.net>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 6:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: new concept/tool for cw DXing and contesting.


>I believe a similar article appeared in QST in the late 1960's.
>
>    Steve Brandt N7VS ex: WB6VVS, WN6QYP Portland, Oregon
>
>> Some time back, W3FQB (SK) wrote a story called "The Man Who Broke The
> Bank"
>> about a techno-ham who built a fully automated SS station and proceeded 
>> to
>> make an incredible score. The computer did everything - tuned across all
> the
>> bands looking for new ones, called CQ, made the QSOs, kept the log,
> decided where
>> the best points-rate could be found, etc. He just sat and watched it go,
> and
>> occasionally keyed it manually just to have something to do.
>>
>> The article was in QST for May, 1953.
>>
>> 73 de Jim, N2EY
>
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