[MIham] Re Michigan Path To Japan?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Hi Dave,

Fascinating! Thank you for the suggestion and information. I will download a 
copy and give it a try.

If it only speaks when it finds a contact I am trying to make, that would be 
great!

Thank you again.

Duane

Duane Fischer, W8DBF/WPE8CXO
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
http://www.w9wze.net
HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
hhrp.w9wze.net

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Edenfield" <freqied73 at aol.com>
To: <miham at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2007 10:56 PM
Subject: [MIham] Re Michigan Path To Japan?


> 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
>
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