[CQ-Contest] What Radio? / SO2R

[Tim Makins, EI8IC]

You don't have to twiddle knobs all the time, but those extra facilities
like RF notch, passband tuning, RIT, different IF filters are darn useful
when the going gets tough. Although the reports are all 599, the signals
certainly aren't !!

Tim, EI8IC www.qsl.net/ei8ic/


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Thorne" <rthorne at tcac.net>
To: "CQ Contest (mail list)" <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: 24 May 2001 16:44
Subject: [CQ-Contest] What Radio? / SO2R


>
> I'm pondering purchasing a new radio, i.e. a used 1000mp.  But this
> question is not so much about what radio but the thought process of
> buying a rig.
>
> In my mind, if your contesting you shouldn't be twiddling a bunch of
> knobs that you find on the high end radios.  It seems to me that your
> fingers should be doing one of two things, either logging calls while
> running stations or twisting the vfo during search and pounce.



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