[CQ-Contest] New SO2R trick?

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Thu Dec 6 13:09:10 EST 2018


Or maybe it was just the high qrn and long qsb we were experiencing......SO2R on a single band?!?! Not many do that, and the one I know is superhuman, he doesn’t need any “tricks” 

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> On Dec 6, 2018, at 10:49 AM, Ron Notarius W3WN <wn3vaw at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Maybe the op just wanted to be sure you were copying it correctly,
> especially if it was in the wee hours for him (or her) and fatigue was
> setting in?
> 
> Or maybe the op just hit a function key or keystroke twice, resulting in the
> macro sending the call twice?
> 
> 73, ron w3wn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Art
> Boyars
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 11:25 AM
> To: CQ-Contest Reflector
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] New SO2R trick?
> 
> My "fresh meat" Saturday night operation in ARRL 160M Contest can yield
> some nice runs from Big Guns (and mid-Atlantic locals).
> 
> Last Saturday night 1045Z a Big Gun in northeastern North America answered
> my CQ, sending his call twice.  That was unusual.  I wondered if I was
> particularly weak at his station (not likely), and maybe he thought I would
> need the QSX to get his call.
> 
> But now I'm wondering: Could he have been creating a couple of extra
> seconds on transmit so that he could finish copying something (a call
> sign?) on the other radio?
> 
> Are SO2R op's adding this trick to their skill set?
> 
> 73, Art K3KU
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