[CCF] FW: [CQ-Contest] SO2R is mainstreamed!

[jukka.klemola at nokia.com]

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73,
Jukka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Scott W4PA [mailto:w4pa at yahoo.com]
> Sent: 27 January, 2003 17:16
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] SO2R is mainstreamed!
> 
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> VE5ZX wrote:
> >SO2R should be a category of its own UNTIL it becomes main
> >stream. For example, packet is almost mainstream - I could live with
> >dropping the assisted category but SO2R is far from mainstream and I
> >expect it will remain out of the mainstream for some time to come.
> 
> Syl, 
> 
> SO2R is very mainstream.  Want to know how I can tell?  When I got
> involved with Tennessee Contest Group in 1996, I think that myself
> and K1KY were the only two guys in the club who were at least trying
> to do SO2R.  The rest of the club were aware of the operating style,
> but just me and Tom were actually doing it on the air and not
> doing it too well, either - have a look at the scores from then.
> 
> Kirk, K4RO set up a reflector for us TCGers to discuss intraclub
> "stuff" - and within a couple of years (1998?) several other club
> members had started running two radios, too.  This was followed
> shortly by some of the more casual contesters in the club getting
> involved with SO2R operation more or less just to try it out.
> I don't have a survey number of the club population to provide,
> but I can say that the majority of TCGers that are getting on
> and operating CW contests are now running SO2R - and most of these
> ops would be considered "casual", because they don't get on and
> operate every single minute going all out to win.  
> 
> What has now happened is (as someone else eloquently pointed out
> here) that the discussions we have as a club over SO2R operation
> are no longer "how can I set it up?".  The discussions we have now
> are things like "Can I get two radios on the same band if I use
> a Beverage spaced in the distance for the other antenna?" and
> "How can I get the antennas back and forth from the radios?"
> and "How can I null this interference out?" - and even then, the
> pace of discussion of this kind of stuff has even slowed because a
> lot of the folks in TCG are already past even those kinds of
> questions for SO2R operation.  
> 
> Scott W4PA
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