[CQ-Contest] Why and why not do this?

[Joe]

depends on the rigs too. not too many of these new rigs can handle 
signals like that.

Joe WB9SBD
Sig
The Original Rolling Ball Clock
Idle Tyme
Idle-Tyme.com
http://www.idle-tyme.com
On 11/26/2013 4:08 PM, Radio K0HB wrote:
> It will be a surprise to W0AIH if no one can listen while another 
> transmits.
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Javier <ea5aer at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Charly, if you are really using an antenna of your farm, I don't think
>> that you can listen anything while your partner is transmiting. The only
>> way to do that is to use, as you have said, a REMOTE antenna, and I 
>> think
>> that it's forbidden, at least in all the contests I've ever Known.
>>
>> However, if you are really using an antenna of your farm, and despite 
>> the
>> fact that you won't be able to listen when you parthner is TXing, you'll
> be
>> able to help him catching callsigns that he couldn't listen because 
>> of the
>> pileup or because of his main antenna beam direction. I think that there
>> are many contest-logger programs that gives you the posibility of doing
>> that with the proper setup of your station as a support station of the
> main
>> one. I've done this in a dxpedition with Wintest, and it helped me a lot
> to
>> reaching high rates, because you don't lose any change asking for
>> callsigns. With this config, your partner could see what you have 
>> heard in
>> his main screen as if it was the cluster window, and then he'll have his
>> chance to use what you have heard if he hadn't listened a full callsign.
>>
>> To put it briefly, I also like being supported or just trying to help
>> supporting the main station, but in my case, we don't have many 
>> people in
>> our team so that we could do this. I hope one day...
>>
>> 73!!!
>>
>> Javier Gómez, EA5AER
>>
>> (EA5KM team on CQ-WW-CW-2013)
>>
>>
>>
>> > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:51:39 +0700
>> > From: hs0zcw at gmail.com
>> > To: cq-contest at contesting.com
>> > Subject: [CQ-Contest] Why and why not do this?
>> >
>> > At a huge contest station I did this.......  Ten meters was my mult
>> > assignment but it was dead, really dead.  So, bored and using a remote
> 40
>> > meter antenna, I listened to the 15 meter run station and heard the
>> people
>> > calling in while the Run Op was transmitting.
>> >
>> > However, because there were fewer callers while the Run Op was
>> > transmitting, I could copy their call signs.  I did and passed a paper
>> note
>> > to the Run Op who could then call the next station without the Run Op
>> > having to listen at all.  Because of my giving him a caller, he could
>> move
>> > to the next guy immediately, not even needing to say QRZ.
>> >
>> > The Run Op did this for ten or so exchanges and was working very fast
>> > because he never had to listen through the pile, only listen for the
>> other
>> > guy's exchange and then call the next guy with no pause.
>> >
>> > Run Op did not like me and stopped doing this, but I saw clearly how
>> great
>> > a system this is.  Has anyone else tried it?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Charly, HS0ZCW
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > CQ-Contest mailing list
>> > CQ-Contest at contesting.com
>> > http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> CQ-Contest mailing list
>> CQ-Contest at contesting.com
>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/cq-contest
>>
>
>
>