I realize I am a couple days late on this one but here goes.
>
>I've been thinking about joining up with some friends in the January NA QSO
>Party to operate as a multi entry. But when I looked over the rules and
>thought about it some more I realized that I had some questions, which I
>hope can be answered here.
>
Best to get questions answered now then after the contest starts.
>1. Pretty basic first question, what's the strategy for operating with two
>stations? Running and picking up mults, or just trying to run on two
>different bands?
Well what we did in January when we won the thing as a M/2. Not knowing any
better we decided to start with one guy on 10 and one on 15, when 10 dies I
went to 20, when 15 died he went to 40. When 20 died I went to 80 and the
guy on 40 would go and work a little on 160 when the times were right.
It was the first time we had ever operated in any catagory other than MS,
and it worked out just fine.
>
>2. If you keep a separate log for each station (xcvr) as required by the
>rules, how do you dupe check if station 1 later operates on a band that
>station 2 was on earlier? Or is each xcvr confined to a specific band(s)?
>
One xcvr on 10/15/80 and one on 15/40/160. Not how it has to be done, just
how we did it.
>3. Do people use more than two xcvrs, but then only transmit from two at
>any given time?
>
Not us, neither one of us has the ability to do it, I have tried it and
splattered my brain in about 4 hours.
>Sorry to sound so dull here, but I'd like to try to do things right...
>
The right way is to just get on and do it. We just happened to do that, got
lucky, and won! Not bad for 2 hours of preparation.
Try it, maybe you will get lucky like we did.
GL
Mike...NO6X
NM6Q in the contests
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