Under what circumstances do you swap the roles of your two radios -- in other words, begin running with the S&P radio, and put the Run radio to work S&Ping? I'm not thinking about situations where yo
I'll run on my second radio about 20% of the time. If one radio is the S&P and I decide to run on that band, often I'll use the radio already there. The "run radio" is better (FT-1000D fully filtered
in to one or want to the radio that stations that If you have two conventional (tuneup required) amplifiers, and you don't swap roles, then you have to tune both amplifiers if you want to change S&P
Hi Pete: Doing serious SO2R, I swap roles every band change for the run radio. I find a frequency on the second radio and just start CQ'ing there. Often, I'm using manual tune amps which also pretty
My own practice has been to route the 160/40/15M antennas to one rig, and the 80/20/10M antennas to the other. The "Run"/"S&P" status of each rig changes according to the choice that I make. For exte
Hal N4GG asked a question much like this a few months ago. The results are here: http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/CQ-Contest/2003-11/msg00143.html and a related question: http://lists.conte
Pete, My station is symmetrical, in that either radio can get at any unused antenna. However, I tend to run on the "better" radio, which lately had been the Ten Tec Orion. The receiver is so good on
I agree entirely with George. My set up is exactly the same way. The key is to make things as symmetrical as possible so you don't have to think when tired. Jim George N3BB At 10:17 AM 5/31/2004 -050
Yes - without restarting the debate on what the best setup for SO2R is, having two radios of equal performance is a good element of an ideal operating console. Even better is two good HF rigs that ar
OK, the consensus is overwhelming -- both radios must be capable of RUN or S&P, for a lot of reasons. Thanks to everyone who reported their conclusions. Now all I have to do is beef up my second radi
Better yet, add a pair of band decoders to the SixPak and you don't have to do any antenna switching at all! BTW, Writelog has a "switch VFOs" command that makes it easy to swap roles. 73, Dick WC1M
In my reply to this post, I mentioned that I have an 87A and a 2000A, but did not point out how that affects the answer to the question. One of the big advantages of being able to swap roles is that
Pete, The easiest solution to your situation (if you are using TR-log) is to simply hit a key (I use F5) that you program to implement the "Exchange Radios" command in TR. Just change your amp settin
Those of you with autotune amps, ever thought that one amp would be enough for SO2R? You could key and drive the amp from the transmitting radio. It would allow running and S&P'ing on either radio an
Yeah, I tried that once. The problem is that the autotune amps don't retune fast enough for the quick switch from running to S&P and back. Just not practical. 73, Dick WC1M __________________________
Author: Steve Root <steve.root@culligan4water.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 11:02:34 +0100
Esa, At W0ZT's we use Alpha 87A's. They sound like they are working hard when making a band change. In a typical 48 hour contest using your SO2R suggestion, the ampifier may have to switch bands 300
When operating Sprint at N4ZZ... Don has one Alpha 87 and one regular manual-tuning amp. (89 IIRC) I set up the manual amp on 40 meters and use that rig only on 40. The other rig is hooked to the aut
Much more than that - and as WC1M (I think) said it is just not fast enough to be able to do things like dropping your callsign in a pile up and then going back to your CQing. And doing this several
Most often when I'm about to transition CQing from one band to another. If I'm on top of things, I'll S&P my way to a new run frequency on the new band while CQing on the "dying" band. The S&P radio