[Ham-Mac] Hallucinations from this side of the Pond!

[Brian Short]

On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:30 PM, Don Agro wrote:
> Naturally, I would like to know. I wonder how many serious contesters 
> are on this list ?
>
> 73 Don Agro VE3VRW

Of course, "serious" is relative and this has been a re-building
year for me as far as contesting is concerned.

I would be interested in such software, especially if it could
run on inexpensive hardware (an older 400MHz iMac, or G3
PowerBook, for example).

I have done the following - ARRL 10m (CW), ARRL 160 (CW),
ARRL SS (CW), ARRL Field Day (CW), CQ WPX (CW), NA
QSO Party (CW), CQ WW (CW), etc.  CW would be important
to me.

I used to operate RTTY contests, but my desert QTH has no
electricity and was burglarized repeatedly, so I only used old old
laptops (TrLog DOS) with too few ports and too little power.  RTTY
would be a plus for me for the future, though.

Contesting from home with the 35' tower and noise is discouraging.
I will hopefully be in operation from the desert antenna farm again
some day soon :)

Getting the fundamentals right, I think, would be more important
to me than an endless collection of bells and whistles.
--
73, Brian (K7ON)
http://members.cox.net/bshort4/