[CQ-Contest] The Video

[Mark Beckwith]

> But like in that video, someone can you please exactly explain to me what 
> is happening?


Pretty mind-blowing, eh?

For starters, SO2R is not ... two receivers, but rather two radios, and in 
this case two transceivers.  If that helps you understand - he's on two 
different bands, running two different pileups simultaneously. The only 
requirement in the rules is there can be only one transmitted signal at a 
time.  He obviously has the two transceivers configured so that only one of 
them can transmit at a time.

There are a lot of different ways to do SO2R.  This is one of them. Most ops 
who do it use a single computer and keyboard, but some use two.  Most ops 
don't run pileups on two bands at the same time - most ops run a solid 
pileup on one band, and pick off other satations calling CQ on another band 
siumulatneously.

Important to note that the home video is picking up aambient sound from the 
radio room, but the op has on headphones and probably there is some fancy 
switching going on, sending different radio audio to different ears at 
different times, to help the op automatically understand better which 
station he's working, and on which band controlled by which computer.

Even for a totally casual person with a bunch of radio equipment sitting 
around, this sort of thing makes Sunday afternoon of the Sweepstakes into a 
whole new, and really fun, world.

Does that help?

73 - Mark, N5OT