[CQ-Contest] Minimal SO2R -- is spacing enough?

tombaugh tombaugh at discoverynet.com
Fri Aug 10 11:53:40 EDT 2001


Good question Pete,

Our experience here with Multi 2 has been even with bandpass filters we get
some fundamental overload.
Looking forward to other answers as I am considering SO2R also.

Tom Baugh
AE9B
----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 7:46 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Minimal SO2R -- is spacing enough?


>
> I'm contemplating SO2R for the first time.  I have the two radios and a
> decent amount of real estate.  My question, hoping to benefit from others'
> experience -- do I stand a chance of doing this on CW, relying solely on
> polarity diversity, low power on the second radio and distance between
> antennas?  Or should I just assume the worst and plan on bandpass filters?
> For the second radio, I'm thinking of an R-5 or similar vertical, spaced
> about 300 feet from my yagis, running 100 watts.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
>
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