[CQ-Contest] CQ Philadelphia contesters

[John T. Laney, III]

Hello any contesters in Philadelphia:

I will be leaving here tomorrow (Tuesday, July 24) for an educational
program at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Philadelphia.  My flight
is due in at 3:50 PM Tuesday.  I will have Tuesday evening, Wednesday
afternoon, and most of Wednesday evening free.  So, it there are any
contesters in Philadelphia who would like to meet for a coca cola and a
ragchew, please give me a call.  The hotel number is (215) 963-1500.  I
will have my laptop with me, so e-mail is a possibility, but there is
some delay built in as I will probably be able to check it only once or
twice a day.

73,

John, K4BAI/8P9HT.


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>From k0il at arrl.net" <k0il at arrl.net  Tue Jul 24 04:33:09 2001
From: k0il at arrl.net" <k0il at arrl.net (Ed - K0iL)
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 22:33:09 -0500
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Yeah
Message-ID: <01C113C7.95630A00.k0il at arrl.net>


On Monday, 23 July, 2001 11:26 AM, Scott Robbins [SMTP:w4pa at yahoo.com] 
wrote:
> K0IL wrote:
> >I agree 100%.  A SO2R guys is definitely being
> >"assisted" by having two
> >radios listening on the air over someone else with
> >only one.
>
> Utter bunk.  Stay awake for 40 straight hours and
> then tell me finding multipliers (or even operating
> on) a second radio is the same as watching a TV
> screen for a packet spot.

I didn't say it was the same, or at least I didn't mean to.  What I meant 
was that having more than one xcvr on the air is a form of "transmitter" 
assitance over the guy who has only one; it is SO multi-xcvr even if it is 
functionally TDMA (time division multiple access).  You don't give up the 
run freq when you work the mult freq, right?  If someone trys to CQ on it, 
you take it back!  That's what they always do to me!  So it is 
SO-multi-transcievers.

Similar is having an Amp as "power" assistance over the guy who doesn't 
have one; this assistance also places the guy into a different operator 
category.  I just think a guy using multiple xcvrs should say so in his 
category somehow (SOMT) the same as packet-assisted & high power ops must. 
 Perhaps it doesn't really impact the score enough to justify it, but it 
still seems like a real advantage similar to packet.  Then again, it must 
since you guys go to all the trouble and then complain (or brag) how 
difficult it is.

> Yeah, I use two radios.  I can pour myself a cup of
> coffee while transmitting on one and receiving on
> the other too.  Just took some practice and some
> commitment, that's all.

Ah ha!  Another category!  Multi-tasking, SOMT.  Ah, nevermind.

Sheesh, 40 straight hours?!  How about a category for the chronically sleep 
deprived?   I know.  Already way too many categories as it is.

73,
de ed -K0iL


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