I may need to turn to bust a pileup. That's where it becomes useful. For
example SA mult when working Caribbean or Europe from the east coast. Long
path is useful because I can decide shortest rotor travel and then do 180
on SteppIR if necessary.
Ria
N2RJ
On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 6:31 PM Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> While the innovative work of those writing logging software and building
> automation hardware to help us push the limits, one feature I purposely
> do NOT use is automation of antenna rotators. Why not? Simple -- If I'm
> running and I hear a station calling me, it's obvious that we both hear
> each other. While running to the east coast or to JA, I often hear
> callers off the back of my antenna. The only times I'm going to turn the
> antenna (or switch to a different one that hears that caller better) is
> if I'm having trouble copying him, or if I decide I want to to run in a
> different direction.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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