[CQ-Contest] Stacking - it's not just for yagis

[JayTerleski]

I respectfully disagree, 

Either radio must be able to be the run radio at any time.


This is maximum flexiblity and truely the best use of two radios.

Jay, WX0B



don.chisholm at home.com wrote:
> 
> I, too, have (had) my right radio as the RUN radio and the left radio as the
> S&P radio.  However, this thread has provoked me to re-think this setup.  I
> am right handed, so naturally my "main" radio went on the right.  But would
> it not make sense to have the *left* radio as RUN, because it is manipulated
> less often?  That way the S&P radio is on the right and, assuming it is to
> be fiddled with way more frequently, it can be dealt with using the more
> coordinated hand and fingers.
> 
> Obviously this would all be reversed if you were left handed.  Hmmm . . . .
> .
> 
> Don
> WX3M
> 
> Don Chisholm
> don.chisholm at home.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <K3BU at aol.com>
> To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2244
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Stacking - it's not just for yagis
> 
> >
> > In a message dated 6/26/01 5:04:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> w4pa at yahoo.com
> > writes:
> >
> > >  If the radios
> > >  are side by side, you always have to have the left
> > >  radio in the left ear, and the right in the right
> > >  ear.  Try running two rigs with the left rig audio
> > >  on the right ear and vice versa.  Ugh!
> > >
> >
> > I can have each radio on both ears (foot switch or computer controlled),
> or
> > if split, left R on left E, right R on right E and I know which ear
> (sound)
> > is from which radio. Why would I want to have left R on right ear? (Unless
> my
> > ears were defective and needed to specialize my ears for particular mode
> of
> > operation?)
> > That is the whole point of the setup, being able to identify which radio
> is
> > doing what by knowing which ear is hearing it. My ears are so far still
> > working OK.
> > I am specializing on operation with 2R on the same band, and typically
> right
> > R is used for CQing, and left R is used for S&P or for diversity reception
> on
> > CQing frequency if pileups too heavy.
> > My mileage may vary, but is getting better as the kinks are being ironed
> out
> > and whole mess is mastered.
> >
> > Yuri, K3BU
> >
> >
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