[Elecraft] Bad Assumptions

[Bill Frantz]

While I enter several contestes a year, I try to do my share of 
DX and rag chewing. I usually have a computer hooked to my rigs. 
SInce I try to upload every HF contact to LotW -- I even log net 
control for the Elecraft SSB net and anyone I relayed for I need 
my QSOs in machine readable form. Entering them into RUMlog when 
I make them saves a lot of the kind of clerical work I am bad at 
and don't like to do, as well as avoiding the transcription 
errors I make all too frequently.

Unless I'm running digital modes, all radio operation is through 
the knobs and buttons. I think RUMped does some rig control, but 
I only run it during contests, and don't really notice what it 
is doing -- the best kind of assistant.

I even went to the extent of building a low power, BeagleBone 
Black based computer system for field day/SOTA like uses. I 
haven't spent much time using it, but building it and its case 
was fun.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 2/17/15 at 6:34 PM, elecraft at mailman.qth.net (David Guernsey 
via Elecraft) wrote:

>I am not a contester, but do have a computer hook up to my K3 
>for logging my contacts with less typing since MacLoggerDX 
>takes the freq and mode and upper/lower sideband from the rig.
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