Overview of VHF Test 2.30 Features
(From the January 1998 update documentation)
- Support for VHF Sweepstakes, VHF QSO Party, UHF Contest, Spring Sprints, and CW WW VHF Contest.
- Coverage of bands from 50 MHz through 24 GHz, plus light.
- Real-time display of band and total scores.
- Grid map showing grids worked, user’s grid, current QSO grid, grids under water, and rover-activated grids, plus a pop-up wider coverage map.
- Bearing box showing distance and bearing from user’s grid to all four corners and the center of the current QSO’s grid.
- Bearing display’s distance can be toggled between miles and kilometers, or can be turned off to avoid calculation delays.
- Generation of complete summary sheets and dupe sheets.
- Automatic duping of callsigns.
- Partial callsign display.
- Pop-up display of current band’s ARRL. bandplan.
- Pop-up windows for help and other functions.
- CW send through COM1-4 at speeds from 1 to 99 WPM.
- A bank of 9 CW memories: 5 are preset, 4 are user programmable. One calls CQ and automatically repeats. Automatically embeds user’s call and grid, and QSO’s call and grid if entered.
- Scratchpad that temporarily holds 10 callsign/grid combinations for “almost” contacts.
- Automatic insertion of a callsign’s grid based on a previous QSO in the current log, a table generated from previous logs, or the scratchpad.
- Rover ready: supports latest ARRL rover rules.
- LCD mode and automatic monochrome detection.
- Keyboard send with type-ahead 200 character buffer.
- Increased ease of use for Spring Sprints: all Sprints are stored in a single log file for easy switching between the “simultaneous Sprints” on 902-1296-2304.
- Dupe-proof editing program eliminates the need to edit via a text editor.
- Quick timestamped note posting to disk file for later reference.
- Grid/band analysis report.
- User setting for GMT offset which is maintained in the configuration file.
- Optional creation of ARRL Suggested Standard Format file.
- Automatic copy of current logfile to second disk drive every user-defined number of QSOs.
- “Heard near” function showing last several callsigns heard within ±3 KHz of current frequency.
- Selectable level of required frequency accuracy.
- Date/time entry for logging of old logs
- Bank of nine programmable alarms