[CQ-Contest] PJ4G ARRL DX SSB Recording by N2IC

Tue Mar 14 14:18:40 EDT 2017

Brian, Thanks for the reply.  But I defy you to know when I am on radio 2 by listening to my run frequency.  I can answer a CQ response and interleave a second radio 2 Q and you would not know the difference.  The magic of doing that is “the art”.  And when I can’t do it, I don’t call the Radio 2 Q.

The only time I would be “coming back to my frequency” and hoping to get back on is if I took a bio break. And if I lost it, I lost it.

I am sure many other SO2R operators feel the same as I do.

73

Ed  N1UR

From: brian coyne [mailto:g4odv at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 1:57 PM
To: sawyered at earthlink.net
Cc: CQ-Contest Reflector
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] PJ4G ARRL DX SSB Recording by N2IC

>>>I am not "using more bandwidth" on the same band.

That is debatable ED and is only really true where an op returning to the first radio following a cq,call,or contact,on the second radio  cedes that first frequency when finding another stn has moved in. How many do that without starting a frequency fight? - I don't come across many.

73  Brian 5B4AIZ.

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From: Ed Sawyer <sawyered at earthlink.net>
To: cq-contest at contesting.com 
Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2017, 15:53
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] PJ4G ARRL DX SSB Recording by N2IC

For the record, I often SO2R on the same band.  However I am not dual CQing

on the same band.  So - I am not "using more bandwidth" on the same band.

I agree with KK9A that if 2 or more bands are wide open, dual CQing on 2

bands is no different use of space than dual CQing on one band.  But in the

bottom half of the sunspot cycle, there is a difference because for good

chunks of time, there might be only one optimum band for a circuit (ie - NA

to EU).  I think ARRL should make it against the rules like CQ has.  

Ed  N1UR

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