[CQ-Contest] RE: SO2R

[Leigh S. Jones]

Never was abandoned.  Where do you get these ideas?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Shohet" <kq2m at earthlink.net>
To: <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 7:42 PM
Subject: [CQ-Contest] RE: SO2R


> Thanks to K8IA and KR6X for correcting my 
> mistaken assumption that I was the first to use SO2R 
> consistently in DX contests.  
> 
> I was the first to do MODERN SO2R then.   :-)
> 
> I find it interesting to note that when I actively did
> SO2R in DX contests starting in the early 80's, no one else in the
> perennial top ten was doing it.   Some had a radio and amp 
> on each band, but they were not operating SO2R.
> 
> If it had been such a helpful and interesting strategy previously
> used by W4KFC, W9IOP, KR6X, and others, why was it
> abandoned  in DX contests?  Does anyone know?
> 
> 73
> 
> Bob KQ2M
> 
> 
> 
> 
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