[CQ-Contest] SO3R???

[Kenneth E. Harker]

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:02:09AM -0500, Doug Smith W9WI wrote:
> 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?  

Actually, yes, what I did above could be done with just a single Yaesu 
FT-1000MP with dual simultaneous receive.

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