Hi Kevin.
I have worked with this problem here at K5NA for years. I call it
"exploding" the station (to multi-op) and "imploding" the station (to
SO2R). This is a task that would usually take me a couple of days to complete.
Unless you can afford to have six SO2R stations, there is the problem
that you will have to take one of the radios off the SO2R device and
put it on a separate controlling device for computer keying and radio
control. That is the hardest part and I don't know how you might put
hardware in place to make both configurations easily applied.
The troublesome part of changing the station from SO2R to multi
that I have managed to overcome is the movement of coax cables
between stations. I bought the 4x8 antenna switch box from Array
Solutions along with cables and band pass filters for the K3s. All
the switching is driven from the K3s output and never needs to be
moved around. So no additional antenna control is needed to convert
the two K3s used for SO2R to multi-op usage. The radios select
antennas first-come, first-served and the antenna is locked out for
the other stations.
We now we have four stations always set up and I do not have to drag
coax around to get any station to any antenna. Since Susan (K5DU) and
I both operate a lot, this has made our antenna switching life a LOT easier.
Good luck. I would be anxious to see a summary of the responses you get.
73, Richard - K5NA
At 11:39 5/5/2013, you wrote:
My dad, K5GO, and I are discussing ways to make our contest station
layout more efficient. One of the primary goals is to switch our
station from multi operator to single operator with two radios
without having to touch a cable behind the rigs. Our SO2R position
is also the same position as one of our multi positions with two
radios in place. Can anyone share how you convert your setup from
multi operator to SO2R? I would like to have the hardware used for
SO2R capability already integrated into our multi op setup.
Thanks and 73,
Kevin, N5DX
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