[CQ-Contest] SO3R???

Hanlon, Steve SHanlon at dnr.state.md.us
Thu Apr 8 08:33:23 EDT 2004


i understand having a receiver that you have on in the background, that's not SO3R - that's  just having a receiver making noise.

SOXR means actively using the radios.  Running on #1, S&P on #2, and how do you actively use the #3?  simply turning it on to "monitor" a band is meaningless.  what frequency to you listen to, esp. on 10m?  i think you would get a far greater idea of what was happening by using the packet spots (not just the annouce or band map in CT).  seeing where the spots are coming from will give you an idea of the propagation.

listening to a receiver off to the side is not very representative of activity on the band.  you are certain to miss weak signal and if you aren't tuning around, you will not hear all the activity - that makes it an active exercise and simply having it on is not active in the least.  

my experiences with SO2R operators have been very much the same - i have heard stations calling CQ on one freq and then 10 up heard the same guy trying to bust a pileup.  stations are replying to the CQ and get no answer because the guy is up 10 on the 2nd radio in the pileup.  at what point is the first radio little more than a place holder to keep a frequency with a prerecorded message.  instead of calling CQ on the freq, why not say "working a pileup WnXXX WnXXX in the pileup back in a minute"  

at least then i would know to not bother and answer your CQ.  

-steve hanlon
kb3kaq


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