[CQ-Contest] SO2R is not unsportmanlike

[Bill Coleman AA4LR]

On 7/23/00 1:29, Bruce Sawyer at n6nt at ynn.com wrote:

>This is the key:  "SKILLED" SO2R operators.  The problem is that 99% of the
>so-called SO2R operators are NOT skilled at it, and I would characterize
>many of those who are not as at least bordering on unsportsman-like.

And how does one obtain that skill?

I'll agree that a poor operator is a lid, no matter how many radios he 
uses. But you can't fault people for trying to improve their skills.

Still, I can't see any legitimate way for an inexperienced SO2R op to 
"take up" more than one frequency at a time.

SO2R is really a misnomer. It's really SO 2R 1T (single operator, two 
receiver, one transmitter). It appears to be a continuing myth amoung 
some SO1R ops that those with two radios transmit on more than one 
frequency at a time. It just isn't so.





Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at radio.org
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            -- Archibald Asparagus, VeggieTales


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