Best contesting software for use with SmartSDR?

I used a hardware voice keyer, but Ray, K9DUR has a voice keyer program out that was written for the legacy series Flex.  It's shareware.

As a contester, I use N1MM.  It's probably the gold standard in contest logging software.  And it's free!

Steve
W6SDM

William,

I am a very active contester and have used two different logging programs with the 6000 series radios:  Writelog and N1MM+.

Writelog is $30/year, N1MM+ is free.  Both are widely used with N1MM+ being more prevalent doubtless because its... free (ham's being cheap ;-)

Both work well and with the new release of N1MM+, there's not much between them.

Both work in all respects with the 6000 series in all modes - RTTY, CW and SSB.  With the current CW support provided by SmartCAT, you will need an external keyer to provide CW keying via the logger.  I use a K1EL WinKeyer2 and its excellent - even when I could avoid using an external keyer with PowerSDR on my original Flex 5000, I still used the WinKeyer as it avoids the PC issues of generating CW - this often led to shorter "dits" than "dahs".

N1MM+ also support a CAT mode called FLEX5000RX2 that enables the 6500 and 6700 to be run in SO2V mode is you so wish - this does require either a triband yagi or multiple transmit antennas - the feature lets you use slice A as radio 1 and slice B as radio 2.  Very easy to then run the radio on two bands at the same time - less easy for the operator however!

The voice keyer works on both Writelog and N1MM+ - very easy to set up and more straight forward on N1MM+ as all the audio support is included in a single program rather than requiring the separate audio program to be run for Writelog setup.

I have used Writelog for years until a few weeks ago - then I ran W1AW/6 for a while here in California and used N1MM+ as a trial.  Worked so well that I used N1MM+ in the California QSO Party and made 1580 Q's in 20 hours - never missed a beat with N1MM+.

The only think that I like less about N1MM+ is that Writelog has an excellent multi-channel CW decoder.  My CW in a contest is good to about 25 WPM but I struggle above this - so the decoder is a helpful crutch with the multi-channel support in Writelog being excellent.

Hope this is helpful!

Stu K6TU

That's possible.  Try reinstalling the software on the boot drive in the root directory - like C:N1MMPlus and try again.

Stu K6TU