[QCWA] Straight Key Night 2010 and the aftermath

[F Tender]

I use N3FJP as my log.  Can HRD v5.0 upload directly to LoTW like N3FJP
does?

Fritz WD8E QCWA 32028



On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Jon Pearl - W4ABC
<jonpearl at tampabay.rr.com>wrote:

> Great story, Jeff.
>
> Now that you've got your feet wet with HRD, why don't you download the
> latest suite of programs in v5.0 build 2837?  It was just released on
> February 1st, 2011.
>
> http://www.ham-radio-deluxe.com/HRDv5.aspx
>
> As one who always said that I'd never give up my paper logs because they
> are part of my 'legacy', you can't imagine how nice it is to allow HRD's
> log book to do the heavy lifting for me.
>
>
>
> 73,
>
>
>
>
> Jon Pearl - W4ABC
> www.w4abc.com
>
>
>
> On 2/1/2011 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Angus wrote:
> > The last time I was on HF was Straight Key Night 1997. I know,
> > it's been a while.
> >
> > What a horror story. It took me 4 hours to make a single QSO
> > and that was a station 25 miles away.
> >
> > Having recently moved to Central Texas (what a change from
> > Los Angeles) I decided to give it another try.
> >
> > This time I put up a simple 20 meter dipole, 15' off the ground
> > from the house to the apartment towards the back of the lot.
> >
> > Success! within 5 minutes (and on my first call) I worked a guy
> > in Princeton IL.
> >
> > Well, the next day, I decided to put up the 40' tower I moved
> > with the other 33+ tons of stuff I brought with me. Ya know,
> > putting those things up seemed a whole lot easier at 25 then
> > it did this time at 57.
> >
> > Now, what to do for an antenna? (I've always had miserable
> > antennas on HF.) This time, I decided to try something different.
> >
> > A 102' doublet fed with 40' of open wire line and an MFJ Versa
> > Tuner. (Ah... old school antenna.)
> >
> > Oh God, I think I broke the S-meter on my Icom IC-761. So this
> > is what HF is supposed to sound like?
> >
> > Just playing with RX only on RTTY, I logged about 30 states and
> > 5 countries in the first hour I had things connected.
> > Admittedly, it was during the RTTY Roundup contest. ;-)
> >
> > So the next step was installing Ham Radio Deluxe 4.0 SP4. The
> > use of a few clip leads and assorted other "hay wire" connections,
> > I could at least receive stuff with the DM780 software and the
> > sound card.
> >
> > Oh my, this is like waking up after being in a coma for the past 43
> > years.
> >
> > So the past few days I've been home brewing all the "nice and tidy"
> > cables and an interface box to tie everything together.
> >
> > It really is weird having fun with the radios after all these years of
> > frustration. Good thing I'm just too stubborn for my own good.
> >
> > Jeff-1.0
> > wa6fwi
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