I use the FT-1000 and I search and pounce on the same band with the same
radio. If I have a clear frequency for CQing I will call CQ and listen on
that freq while tuning the rest of the band with the sub-receiver.
Keeping the same frequency is great for CQing, so once you have been put out
on packet in EU, all of the dipole/vertical crowd can come by and work you.
BTW, I have a second radio but have never used it. Operating one radio is
confusing enough for me. Personally, I feel if someone has enough
cordination to use a half-a dozen at once, more power to him!
73
Steve
>From Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham@HK.Super.Net Tue Apr 4 12:43:24 1995
From: Mr. Brett Graham" <bagraham@HK.Super.Net (Mr. Brett Graham)
Subject: AJ7/ call sign
Message-ID: <199504041143.AA18999@is1.hk.super.net>
K4JPD signed:
-73-
Steve
K4JPD/az4
How many caught that? Must count as a ;-)!
I agree with Steve. Whether or not it merits a change to the rules is
another question. Seems pretty clear to me that if my call doesn't match
my country, then for the contest (obviously for other reasons, too), I
should sign /something which would cleary indicate my country & is legal to
use.
Those of you in a big country where geographically indicative calls are no
longer deemed necessary, go pound sand! Your call already indicates what
country you're in, though not necessarily where you are in it unless sign
as originally intended: yourcall/district, which makes you
yourprefix-district+/district as a mult.
If you don't like your prefix & resultant mult (for those who can select
between two already), upgrade, buy something better, or move. All that
nonsense before about "I don't have to sign portable", "I'm not portable -
I'm operating from my house" & "All those extra dits & dahs slow me down"
is rubbish. From the DX side, even in the WPX, a call that says where you
are is more likely to get a call from me during those increasingly rare
openings as the sunspots continue to auger. Unless you're somebody who I
can remember, like K5ZD or N6AR... or one of those increasingly rare
prefixes like WA4!
73, VS6BrettGraham aka VR2BG bagraham@hk.super.net
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