[CQ-Contest] RTTY Reflections

[steve.root at culligan4water.com]

I don't see how my actions would affect your run at all. I call CQ on the run radio and listen for an appropriate amount of time and don't hear an answer. I hear you on the S&P radio calling CQ. Since I apparently didn't get an answer to my CQ, I call you and work you on the other radio. While I'm working you in a timely manner, somebody answers my CQ 20 seconds after it ended. By then you and I have completed our QSO so I call the guy who answered my CQ. Where in all of that did I make you wait or affect your run?
Now if I called you on the second radio IMMEDIATELY after my CQ ended, hoping to bounce between radios and basically work you and someone answering my CQ simultaneously I can see where the wheels could fall off that bus. Maybe there are guys who can handle that but I'm not one of them. I'd rather I made one solid QSO than two messed up ones. 
73 Steve K0SR
p.s. Thanks for the Q's last weekend!
 >-----Original Message-----
>From: Fred Dennin [mailto:fdennin at numail.org]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008 05:29 PM
>To: 'cq-contest reflector', 'Dave Hachadorian', steve.root at culligan4water.com
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] RTTY Reflections
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>It might work out for you but it's a pain in the posterior to the guy who 
>has a run going and gets his rhythm interrupted because he has to wait on an 
>SO2R guy that hasn't yet mastered handling both rigs. When I acknowledge 
>your call and you don't come back right away in my run, you're written off 
>and I'm CQing again. When you get around to logging your other Q and call 
>me again, you move to the bottom of the list for a response from me.
>
>Everyone has to have a transition period in mastering handling two radios 
>simultaneously, and my hat goes off to those who do it very well because 
>there is an art to it. Good luck with your endeavor in doing so as well!
>
>73'....Fred WW4LL
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: <steve.root at culligan4water.com>
>To: "Dave Hachadorian" <K6LL at ARRL.net>; "cq-contest reflector" 
><cq-contest at contesting.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:31 PM
>Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] RTTY Reflections
>
>
>> >Here's a question for you, though. Why are you waiting 20
>>>seconds between cq's?
>>>
>>>Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
>>>Yuma, AZ
>>>
>>
>> Because I was working a guy on the second radio at the time and heard the 
>> answer to my CQ in the other ear! Actually the timing works out pretty 
>> good in such a circumstance as I was able to interleave both QSO's pretty 
>> well.
>> 73 SR
>>
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