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On Fri 04 Jun 2004 07:29:45p, "Michael" wrote in
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"-=jd=-" wrote in message
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On Fri 04 Jun 2004 06:32:51p, "Michael" wrote in
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Michael wrote:

Let me know if you come on any difficult signals and I'll give 'em
a
whirl
on my end. I'll be up for another hour tonight.

Michael

It would be fun if those on the group who are interested, could do
some real time DX'ing together by using a chat room to share what
we're hearing. Have you ever done this?


Chat programs arent my speed... You can post what you come up with
right here and you'll get other people to check it out right away and
respond with a reception report from their location. I usually just
put that in my subject line the time and frequency and others check
it out right away and report on it too.

It would be kewl if we culd get a number of people to assemble for a
particular night during a set two or three hour time slot and post
their finds and stand ready to check out each others posts and
respond to them with a reception report.

Michael



Someone in here has a chat-applet on his web-site and I wonder if it
would be available and private enough? Alternatively, there are a
variety of instant-messaging apps available.

One possible downside I see to posting the results in RRS (as
individual messages) is trying to read through them in order or having
to navigate through the relevant posts without having to jump around.
In any event, it wouldn't be that difficult to dump all the reports
into a single DB or even some contest logging app, then post a single
all-in-one report of the results from different locations - instead of
having to sort through a long message thread and piece the reports back
together in order.

Formatted something like (but not limited to):

Freq1 - Station ID
(listener 1 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment (mode, SINPO, whatever)
(listener 2 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment
(listener 3 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment

Freq2 - Station ID
(listener 1 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment
(listener 2 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment
(listener 3 & QTH) - Time - S-# & Comment

At the top or bottom you could list each listener's details.
That wouldn't take much effort - I'd even volunteer to compile it - and
I think it might be somewhat easier to read for comparisons....

Just a suggestion - I repeat - Just a suggestion.

Good suggestion. It could be done on a web site in that format. It
would be a great log.

The question... Who would host it ???

Michael



I was thinking of just posting the report in here... Or, were you talking
about the participants recording their reports on a web site? I don't know
if there are any freebie web sites that would allow that kind of scripting
- there may be, I've never looked... But, if I wasn't thinking about web-
enabling it, I was thinking about providing a text document (template)
that each person would use to fill out their reception reports - they'd
then email me the completed template and I'd compile them all together
into one report. Something like that...


That sounds good too. You could probably use an excel document to do it.
If we were going to do this to compare how each of the participants received
the same signal at the same time from their location, you could prepare the
excel document before hand and fill in all the signals that we are supposed
to report on. So... say we pick twenty specific signals... You put them on
the excel spread sheet. Each participant fills out the spread sheet and
when he/she is done, it is sent back to be compiled. Then it can just be
cut and paste on to a master excel document with the listeners
ID/Radio/Location as the heading above the copy/paste. Then, the final log
is distributed back to all the participants via e-mail.

Next... Who picks the 20 or so signals to check out ??? What time slot ???

Michael