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We are preparing for the WPX contest next weekend. The contest location is the fieldday ground of the DARC L03 club, near Duisburg (see location on the APRS map). Crew are DL4YR,DL1EKC and DK3QZ. The latter two were ops of CT9L in 2002 and 2004 resp.

Equipment will be 2 Elecraft K2's, 2 linears, a cubical quad, a 3-band TH33 and some dipoles.
We are going to use TLF of course, and this morning I prepared the computers for the wpx.
They had not been updated since last year's wpx so it needed the latest versions of Ncurses (5.4), cwdaemon (0.9), hamlib (1.2.3) and tlf (0.9.23).

If you do the upgrade in this sequence you will be o.k. (don't forget ldconfig after installing the libraries, and make clean before making tlf!!). Under Morphix cwdaemon is copied to /usr/local/bin, which is not in the PATH. We will have a network (Wifi compatible) with 4 nodes, with cluster data, rig control for the K2's and cw via the cwdaemon.

The photo shows how you can use a pool table for contest preparation (notice how the K2 is dwarfed by the computers... is this radio?)

The weather forecast is fantastic, the CONDX forecast is MISERABLE!! So we will have plenty of time for the social aspects of this event....