Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mouton.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mouton!karn From: karn@mouton.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ham-radio Subject: Re: DX contest simulator Message-ID: <161@mouton.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 12:27:14 EDT Article-I.D.: mouton.161 Posted: Wed Sep 26 12:27:14 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 06:13:44 EDT References: <725@cbdkc1.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Inc Lines: 14 The product you're referring to is called "Dr. DX" and is sold by AEA. I learned about this wonderful little gimmick during a visit to ARRL HQ the other week. It turns out that the AEA people love to play practical jokes with this thing, and it is remarkable how many people they had absolutely fooled at Dayton. One Japanese amateur radio company representative's eyes almost popped out when he apparently saw the AEA guy working a DX pileup using a ball-point-pen as the "antenna". Perhaps this says something about the intellectual challenge level of working CW DX? Phil