[CQ-Contest] SO3R???

Doug Smith W9WI w9wi at earthlink.net
Fri Apr 9 01:02:09 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 16:02, Kenneth E. Harker wrote:
> I think this is not terribly uncommon amongst serious single-banders 
> and during single-band contests such as the ARRL 10 Meter Contest.
> I've done it (once, poorly) with a setup (at K5TR) that involved a 
> second receiver that was turned off whenever the main rig transmitted.  
> When I found a new station to work on the second receiver, I'd plug 
> the frequency into VFO B of the transceiver, wait for the opportune 
> moment, go to the B VFO, work the station, and return to the A VFO to
> call CQ.  It would take a few more steps to make the system really 
> SO2R, and even then you cannot listen on radio B while radio A is 
> transmitting, but there are still ways you can make use of two radios
> on the same band.

Is that really much different from using the other VFO to make a quick
multiplier hunt between fruitless CQs?  

I guess I figured "SO2R" meant the ability to listen on one radio *while
transmitting* on the other one.  
-- 
Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN  EM66
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