This effort the pocket PC or hand held PC work very well and if the application of a serial connection is present a host of digital modes are open up to the mobile operator.
With a dongle a interface between the palm PC and a serial environment a radio or transceiver control software is used to control your rig and Telnet radio spots to your transceiver and set the rigs frequency to the dx spot a logging program can incorporate the contact in real time to your updated log and when you are back in your shack the PC and palm device can synchronize your log and update the LotW or eqsl automatically.
There is many software titles writen for the palm device but a good place to start
looking is by clicking on the AvantGo button on this blog.
A very good place to look is the groups on Yahoo and google for feeds and news groups
that can be loaded on a PDA or a MP3 player.
Friday, October 28, 2005
Avantgo
The Avantgo web site has a free download of many web clippings, say there is information on a page you need on the hobby like satellite information, you can copy a site to your handheld pc or palm.There are many preloaded synced pages that are already on the Avantgo web site.Give it a look and you will find something for your palm or pc and the best is a internet connection is not needed.
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