Contest magazines as all rags depend on who pays the most for advertizing. I
have no more to say about that............As for split frequency operation,
it makes more enimies of contesters than anything else. Screaming a call on
a frequency that is already occupied is counter productive and is becoming
an Achiles heal to contesting...joe
Jim Reid wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: JAMES T BRANNIGAN <JTBRANNIGAN@prodigy.net>
> To: Dale L. Martin <kg5u@hal-pc.org>; Ten-Tec Reflector
> <Tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 8:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] CT 9.37 and OMNI-VI+
>
> >
> >>>For some strange reason the OMNI-VI is not a favorite of
> >>contesters..
>
> >ICOM's and the YAESU FT-1000's seem to be the rig of choice for the big
> >contest stations...
>
> There has been quite a discussion in CQ-Contest magazine last
> year on this topic. It has mostly to do with how the incremental
> tuning operates on the Omni. As I recall, not positive, there
> exists some prohibited time, when you are doing something
> else, maybe listening to the DX on split, the transmittal
> incremental tuning will not operate, or something like that.
>
> As a result of this prolonged dialogue, few issues of the mag,
> and maybe on the CQ-contest reflector, a letter was sent to
> Ten Tec describing whatever the changes the "Contest
> Community" had decided they would like to see.
>
> Seems later on, that something was in the magazine/
> on the reflector that Ten Tec was pretty much ignoring
> the raised issues, or had chosen not to bother, or
> something.
>
> Anyway, for whatever it is worth, those are my recollections,
> and they are probably certainly not completely correct nor
> complete!
>
> 73, Jim, KH7M
>
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