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On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 22:07:32 -0500, you wrote:
>Aside from him having better skills, there is no advantage.
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Your statement shows you do not understand two radio operation.
Here it is in a nutshell: When using two or more radios, the operator
can listen during 100% of the contest period, even while transmitting.
The one radio operator, no matter how skillful, can not do that. As a
result, the two radio guy can find mults and unworked stations that
the one radio guy can not.
If the two ops are both very highly skilled, the two radio guy will
win every time, all else being equal, and by a large margin too.
Most people who have studied the issue feel that the advantage of two
radios is about equal to the HP/LP advantage, the SO/MO advantage and
the assisted/unassisted advantage. Those situations eventually
resulted in the creation of new classes in the interest of fairness
and one/two radio situation should too.
Bill, W6WRT
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