[MIham] Re Michigan Path To Japan?

[Dave Edenfield]

Hi Duane, I would like to add to Hank K8DD's suggestion for a DX packet
program. I use Spot Collector which is a freeware program from DX Labs.
There are other freeware programs from DX Labs that you can run and they all
"talk" to one another. You can run only what you feel necessary at the time.
Spot Collector has different filtering options on mode, band, origin of
spotting station, and other criteria. The software can be set to audibly
announce the mode, band, country, on a filter you choose, such as all
stations, certain bands, if you have worked the country on that band, and if
you have the country confirmed or not. www.dxlabsuite.com is the link to
find out more about the freeware programs. I have asked the software
creator, Dave AA6YQ on behalf of another blind ham friend of mine and he
replied that all of the software is capable of being read by JAWS. There is
an excellent reflector for additional help on any problems or suggestions
you may have with the operation of the software. I hope that this will help
you on your endeavor to work the Far East, just as I am in that very same
boat myself of needing more stations in that region of the world. I don't
know of anyway currently to work around your problem of having a computer in
the shack or hearing the computer "mouth off" as you listen to the radio. I
am myself the same way, as I find talking in my local background very
distracting as I listen to the radio. I'll give that a little thought.

73 W8RIT
Dave Edenfield
freqied73 at aol.com
w8rit at arrl.net
www.arrl.org