KG2V wrote:
“A lot of people couldn’t care about SO2R. If you aren’t a contester it doesn’t
do you much good”
Actually, that’s not true at all. I find SO2R to be of exceptional value when
trying to work a rare DXpedition station on multiple band modes. Often the
pileups are so extreme and the “windows” of time to work them is so short, that
if I wait to work them on one band mode before calling them on another, then I
will likely miss them on BOTH!
Often Dxpeditions work cw on one band and then ssb on the next band higher or
lower, and then they switch band-modes the following day. So if you miss 15 CW
on day 1, your next chance won’t be until day 3. Perhaps you work on day 3 day
and are not around when they get on? Or maybe cndx are poor and there is no
opening. Or maybe the team decided to go sightseeing. Then your next chance
maybe day 5 or maybe not at all! Maybe the dxpedition operator is
inexperienced or just not very good and decides that it is too hard to work
that band-mode again. Better get them while you can. How can you do that with
one radio?
Operating SO2R gives you a way to monitor cndx simultaneously on two bands
and/or make qso’s on those two bands. It also speeds band changes when you are
calling the station on one band and moving to another freq. on the 2nd radio.
It makes operating far more efficient and interesting even if you don’t want to
operate contests; although I can’t imagine why anyone would feel that way.
:-)
73
Bob, KQ2M
From: Charles Gallo
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2019 10:01 AM
To: Kelly Taylor
Cc: Jim Thomson ; dj7ww@t-online.de ; towertalk@contesting.com ; Glenn
Pritchard
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] High VSWR
> On Sep 1, 2019, at 9:27 AM, Kelly Taylor <ve4xt@mymts.net> wrote:
>
> Perhaps one tower is all he had space to raise, but it also seems like a huge
> sum of money to not even get SO2R capability.
A lot of people couldn’t care about SO2R. If you aren’t a contester it doesn’t
do you much good
--
73 de KG2V
Charlie
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