But like in that video, someone can you please exactly explain to me what
is happening?
Pretty mind-blowing, eh?
For starters, SO2R is not ... two receivers, but rather two radios, and in
this case two transceivers. If that helps you understand - he's on two
different bands, running two different pileups simultaneously. The only
requirement in the rules is there can be only one transmitted signal at a
time. He obviously has the two transceivers configured so that only one of
them can transmit at a time.
There are a lot of different ways to do SO2R. This is one of them. Most ops
who do it use a single computer and keyboard, but some use two. Most ops
don't run pileups on two bands at the same time - most ops run a solid
pileup on one band, and pick off other satations calling CQ on another band
siumulatneously.
Important to note that the home video is picking up aambient sound from the
radio room, but the op has on headphones and probably there is some fancy
switching going on, sending different radio audio to different ears at
different times, to help the op automatically understand better which
station he's working, and on which band controlled by which computer.
Even for a totally casual person with a bunch of radio equipment sitting
around, this sort of thing makes Sunday afternoon of the Sweepstakes into a
whole new, and really fun, world.
Does that help?
73 - Mark, N5OT
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