Headsets are an excellent accessory for your amateur radio station. There are so many to choose from it might seem overwhelming to pick one. They come in large sizes to small and work with some radios while not with others. This is a description of the process I used to select my headset in the hopes it will help others decide if, when and which headsets they should consider.
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Last March while preparing multiple backyard antennas for the Virginia QSO Party, I needed a way to use just one coax out to the back yard. A coax switch was in order. Cash is always limited and I was seriously thinking about the Ameritron products… especially the four port model that does not need a separate control cable. However, I read some reviews suggesting the Ameritron RCS-4 works fine, but has leakage to the un-selected ports albeit small. I continued to search for switch and remembered DX Engineering has some models to consider. I have purchased other DX Engineering products and find them excellent.
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I guess it was only a matter of time before Java made its way into the world of ham radio. Really, Java has been at the forefront of computing for some time. Whenever a programmer friend asks me if they should port their popular program to Java I say “why bother, Java is just too slow.” That was then and this is now.
Java is still slower than directly compiled programs, but computers are so fantastically fast these days, this issue is becoming not an issue.
One of the participants on the Sunday Night Tech Net mentioned he is reviewing and modifying a new, too him anyway, JAVA based contest logger.
Enter JL Logger…
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