[CQ-Contest] Not Another Contest Category

[Barkey, Patrick M.]

My suggestion for SO2R would be simply to try it.

I borrowed a TS-930 from W9RE and hooked it up
to a dedicated GAP vertical (also borrowed) for 
CW SS in 1998.  My only investment was a switch
for mixing the headphone audio (I used a dedicated
keyer for the 2nd radio).

No switches, filters, software, etc.  It was
a lot of fun, and I know it improved my score
significantly.  In fact, everything I have done
to my hardware since that contest has only added 
a little more to the big improvement I realized 
when I was barefoot to that GAP.

There is no question that the bar has been raised
in single-op contesting.  But the horse has been
out of the barn for at least a decade, now.

  - Pat
    N9RV

-----Original Message-----
From: Dale L Martin [mailto:kg5u at hal-pc.org]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:08 PM
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Not Another Contest Category




> > Second radio = $1000
>
> Yep, a second radio is definitely needed.  But a lot (most?) of us
> already have an extra rig lying around the shack...use it.
>
True AND it doesn't need to be an exotic,
top-of-the-line-or-anywhere-near-that radio.

> > Second amp = $500
>
> Only if you're running high power....and then it's not required.
>
> > Decent antenna for each band. Cost varies, depending on what you
> > already have.
>
> Now that one is the biggie.  But if you've already got monobanders,
> you're in good shape.  Triband types will have to put some more
> thought into it.
>
I've got two tribanders (70' and 40' (fixed NW)), a 12avq triband
ground-mounted vertical, a 40m Inv Vee, 80m Half-sloper and 160m Inv L.

During the last NAQP CW Contest, when I did 2R (I don't do it all the
time;
just when the CQ or S&P rate drops) I was CQ'ing on the tribanders and
S&P'ing with the vertical.  It worked great.  Stations I called on the
vertical heard me generally first call.  According to the rate meter, I
broke 90 per hour a few times and broke 110 once!!  Oh yeah, I was
operating
QRP.

I don't think you need an exotic, hi-gain antenna for the second radio.
You
don't need to be BIG when S&P'ing.

73,
dale, kgu


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