16-03-2023, 05:16 PM
Thanks Doug
Interesting re the latest version being 4.15...one of our contesting group reckons he has 4.2 so when I meet up I will have a look and update here if there is such a version.
Sorry to hear about your sister and the reprocussions still ongoing - I hope that she is on the improve and sorry to hear you won't make it to JMMFD.
I am pretty sure I downloaded a very early version of YACL and was quite impressed and wish you all the best with the development. I haven't looked at N1MM becasue I already use L4OM as my day to day logger and while it too will do some contrests Mike' VKCL is my go to for most contests. I had worked him on a number of occasions and had some discussions via email with him regarding VKCL. Such a shock when I heard the news of his passing.I had just heard on the grapevine that the N1MM logger had some support for VK contests but as I said no direct experience.
And yes - have had a look inside WSJT and some discussions with Denis re this year's JMMFD and after that I decided our club would enter the phone section this year.
The other issue I have with JMMFD is that I truly believe the scoring needs to be brought into line with the other VHF contests. By doing so it should encourage more ambitious portable stations out in the field as the 'bang for buck' should be greater. As it stands the max points you can get is for a contact at 300k which on 2m from a mountaintop is pretty easy with modest gear. We take up a 60ft windup mast with rotator and room for 6,2,70 and 23 antennas for our VHF entry and I see 3ER/p doing similar....no doubt others too. Not sure of the numbers of portable stations these days but contest radar doesn't show many.
Anyway food for thought
John 2YW
Interesting re the latest version being 4.15...one of our contesting group reckons he has 4.2 so when I meet up I will have a look and update here if there is such a version.
Sorry to hear about your sister and the reprocussions still ongoing - I hope that she is on the improve and sorry to hear you won't make it to JMMFD.
I am pretty sure I downloaded a very early version of YACL and was quite impressed and wish you all the best with the development. I haven't looked at N1MM becasue I already use L4OM as my day to day logger and while it too will do some contrests Mike' VKCL is my go to for most contests. I had worked him on a number of occasions and had some discussions via email with him regarding VKCL. Such a shock when I heard the news of his passing.I had just heard on the grapevine that the N1MM logger had some support for VK contests but as I said no direct experience.
And yes - have had a look inside WSJT and some discussions with Denis re this year's JMMFD and after that I decided our club would enter the phone section this year.
The other issue I have with JMMFD is that I truly believe the scoring needs to be brought into line with the other VHF contests. By doing so it should encourage more ambitious portable stations out in the field as the 'bang for buck' should be greater. As it stands the max points you can get is for a contact at 300k which on 2m from a mountaintop is pretty easy with modest gear. We take up a 60ft windup mast with rotator and room for 6,2,70 and 23 antennas for our VHF entry and I see 3ER/p doing similar....no doubt others too. Not sure of the numbers of portable stations these days but contest radar doesn't show many.
Anyway food for thought
John 2YW