For whatever it's worth, when I started playing with SO2R, I went very simple.
I use four different antennas in a contest: a hexbeam, a 40m antenna, an 80m
Carolina Windom (works 12-80), and a 160m antenna.
The initial antenna configuration was:
Radio 1, Antenna Port 1: Hexbeam
Radio 1, Antenna Port 2: 40m or 160m (manually switched)
Radio 2, Antenna Port 1: 80m CW
Because the 80m CW works on multiple bands, I just dedicated it to Radio 2.
If, for some reason, I needed to put out a better signal on Radio 2 on any band
other than 80, I'd Alt-F5 in N1MM to move the desired frequency over to the
radio with the better antenna.
(If the 80m antenna were single band, I'd have put up a dedicated 20m antenna
of some sort and connected it to Radio 2 as well.)
All I needed to remember was to flip the manual switch when going to/from 160m,
and to not have both radios on the same band.
And before someone asks/points it out... it's a low power station, so a lack of
bandpass filters is merely inconvenient...and the BPFs would preclude such a
simple setup, I think. Also, no automation beyond CAT control of the radios,
and the radios' having antenna choice be a per-band setting.
It wasn't an ideal arrangement, but it worked.
--
Michael Adams | mda@n1en.org
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