Thursday, July 7, 2011

IAMRU Contest This Weekend

This weekend the Lost Island DX Society will be participating in the summer festival of QRN, otherwise known as the IAMRU contest. This annual contest, under the guise of an everybody-works-everybody DX contest, is THE platform for a jingoistic radiosport competition between national radio societies. In the past, certain national radio societies have worked the contest rules looking for loopholes like a tax lawyer with an offshore bank account. This year should be no different.

The LIDS are testing some new performance enhancing hardware for the contest this year. The logging computer has been outfitted with some additional hardware and software. For every new multiplier worked, the computer triggers a dispenser and gives the operator an M&M. Green ones if it's a really rare mult. If the rate meter falls below a preset level, the computer trigger a power source connected to the operator's seat which administers a mild shock. If after two minutes the rate has not reached an acceptable level, the voltage of the shock is increased. This continues until either an acceptable run rate is attained or it is necessary to replace the op. If these enhancements work out, expect support for them to be included in a future release of N1MM and Writelog.

9 comments:

  1. I thought the color of the M&M might be based on the distance of the contact or maybe whether it was a polar path or not.

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  2. That feature is being saved for ARRL DX!

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  3. Is it radiosport, radioSport, sportRadio, sport radio, RadioSport, SportRadio or sportradio?

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  4. It's Corntesting. At least that's what they call it down south.

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  5. You stole my idea. -- J.D.C. Pavlov

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  6. Dear Pavlov,
    We only steal from the best. Do I hear a bell?

    Cousin QRM

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  7. It's offshore BANK account, not back account. LID!

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  8. "It's offshore BANK account, not back account. LID!"

    This can happen when you use Supercheck Partial as a spell checker. Or when you learn your 3Rs on qth.com.

    I know -- I am an editur.

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  9. It's LIDS (Lost Island DX Society) not LID. LID!!

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