Togo of Grand Smials ([info]hfx_ben) wrote,
@ 2008-09-14 01:00:00
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This is about "HamSphere, a software package that simulates high-frequency radio communications.
[info]tinytrout's post is about how the creator threw up his hands and gave up. But he actually didn't.

Anyway [info]tinytrout has his LJ set for Friend's only, so heh I couldn't talk to him. I think that's pretty ironic! So here's what I would have posted:
Reports of death are premature

;-)

Hi ... was googling for news about tomorrows contest and found this.
Good on you!

I've been licensed since '73, have done tons of contesting, but have been off the air for the past 4 years, since a cross-country move caused me to jettison all my gear.

So I've only been on HamSphere for 2 days, but have already had a few very fine chats, most of them with licensed hams, but not all.
Great stuff!

So this afternoon I set up another laptop to act as a keyer ("virtual sound cards" are actually more primitive / rare than they were with Win3.1 ... which I find odd) and am ready for tomorrow!

cheers
[info]hfx_ben aka bentrem - VE6IU

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Hamsphere
[info]tinytrout
2008-09-15 10:23 am UTC (link)
Hello,

I've dropped by to mention that the LJ Tinytrout has been opened to other LJ users to comment, not just friends. There was a stalker issue that was bothering me but I can't close down a comments page just for one freak :)

73 MW6SLW AKA Tinytrout

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Re: Hamsphere
[info]hfx_ben
2008-09-15 02:48 pm UTC (link)
Hey there uhhhhhh Trout! ;-)

Great stuff ... thanks for the notification.
Yaa, I know what it's like. I've been tempted to throw that switch / toggle that bit more than a few times but in the end things settled down.

Well heck I'll just copy this over there! There was the HS contest yesterday so folk might be googling for information.

cheers

ben

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Re: Hamsphere
[info]tinytrout
2008-09-16 10:17 am UTC (link)
Hi Ben.

I missed the contest. As a newbie, I've never done any kind of contest so this would have been a great intro to the sport.

Next time !

Bye for now

Simon

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Re: Hamsphere
[info]hfx_ben
2008-09-16 03:04 pm UTC (link)
Hey Simon

Don't feel bad, you didn't miss much.
I had spent some time with the system in the week previous and had made a number of contacts (Not that many, really, even coming up to the contest it wasn't busy.), had a couple of nice conversations.
But on the day? I heard a fair number of stations, not as many as there are in a real on-air contest (I've done a lot of those.) but had almost no luck contacting them. I made a total of 1 contact, and that one only after I increased my power to 1 Kilowatt. Even with that it was obvious the other guy had trouble hearing me.

So it wasn't a real good simulation. In real life one of the challenges is to deal with the fact that there are so many stations on the air!

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