[CQ-Contest] TenTec Orion questions regarding SO2R suitability

[Eric Scace K3NA]

   The first time I did this was with W6OAT on Clipperton.  I was the transmitting operator, and Rusty would mumble calls to me
verbally to feed into the queue.  We were surprised at how often we would pick different calls out of a large CW pileup.  Since I
had my hand on the key, I got to send my pick of the pileup first... sometimes prompting Rusty to say "I never even heard that guy
calling..."

   It's very educational to listen in with a good op on a pileup.  One learns lots of new operating techniques.

73,
   -- Eric K3NA

-----Original Message-----
From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
[mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Dale L Martin
Sent: 2003 May 8 Thursday 17:27
To: cq-contest at contesting.com
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] TenTec Orion questions regarding SO2R
suitability



>
> I don't think you're missing anything, although I'd certainly like to
> check out the Orion. From what I heard earlier, the Orion has similar
> operational flexibility to an FT-1000MP. The second rx is a basically
> tool for listening to your transmit freq when operating split.
> World-class rx2 performace is not required.  Although, unlike the MP,
> the Orion lets you listen to a second band with a different antenna, my
> understanding is that you can't do that while transmitting.
>

Rick,
What we did with the FT-1000MP primary station at ZF1A during CQ WW CW was
pretty cool, but it took two ops.

The primary operator would be calling cq on the transmitter and main
receiver.  The other op listened on the subreceiver.  Between the two, a
couple of calls could generally be pulled from the pileup to work in quick
succession.  One of the interesting phenomena was the frequency at which the
other operator and I both picked the same call.  It didn't seem to matter if
the note was high, medium, low, strong, medium or weak.  Tuning off
frequency about a half-kHz seemed to help.


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