Fw: [CQ-Contest] Summary: Minimal SO2R

[kk9a at arrl.net]

I'm not sure what your antennas are, but I have done SO2R sucessfully
without bandpass filters using 100 watts.  My antennas are all monobanders
with a 20' minumum seperation so I have some natural out of band
attenuation. After I realized that I really liked SO2R I added switchable
bandpass filters to both radios as a protection measure. I wouldn't run QRO
without this filtering.

73,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Smith
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Sent: 8/11/2001 2:07 AM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Summary: Minimal SO2R


Thanks to everyone who responded so quickly to my query about the
minimal
configuration necessary to try SO2R.  I've been reluctant to spend a lot
of
money on bandpass filters and other specialized hardware because I
frankly
don't know whether I'll be able to do SO2R effectively.

Anyway, the consensus opinion is that with QRO on the run station, I
will
probably need some form of protection for the second radio, even with
polarity diversity and distance.  Several folks commented on the
physical
risk to the front end of the second radio without some measures of this
sort.  N0AX came up with the clever idea of using quarter-wave 40m stubs
on
one or both radios, with toggle switches on the ends, to give
attenuation
on 40 and 15 with the stubs open, or 20 and 10 with them closed. As he
put
it, this would at least let me find out if "sterner measures" are
needed.

73, Pete N4ZR


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