02.12.2009 19:46:14

adrian

Been doing very little radio last few days, in fact my only contact was today I had a listen on what was a very poor 17m band, almost no signals whatsoever, conditions on the higher bands (anthing above 20m) have been rubbish, well they have for me, Anyway I heard VP5/K5CM with excellent signals (on an otherwise flat band) so I called him and exchanged reports, I only realised that this was a new band slot for me so a bit happier with that, on a completely different note, I have decided (ive only been thinking about it for 15 odd years) to put all of my logs from ZC4MK and VP8COI onto computer, reason being is that A. it would be nice to do it, B. it makes it easier to see what I have worked, C. I will be able to see if I have any outstanding QSLs for any of those rare entities I worked all those years ago, (Providing the Ops are still alive !!!)

I came across a fantastic little program called FLE, (Fast Log Entry) by DF3CB, I wont bore you about it in depth but it does what it says on the tin, enables me to create a log file in ADIF format which I can import into my favourite logging program, (Winlog32 if you must know) this utility is simply brilliant, I have done 900 QSOs from my VP8 Log in probably little over two hours over a couple of evenings, I havent bothered with the Comments and Name fields as that would slow the process down, I can always refer to the paper log for those details, have a look at this utility if you get the chance, its also great if you dont have immediate access to your logging program and want to use a computer to log contacts quickly and simply, anyway have a look here Fast Log entry

Other than that not much else to report, the ongoing saga of the tower is just that, an ongoing saga

by the way, in case your wondering, the Title of this entry merely reflects my trip down memory lane whilst going through all of my logs from 1993 for VP8COI, one of my contacts shows VK9NS who is sadly SK now and I never sent for his card !