[RTTY] SO2R radios

Billy Cox aa4nu@ix.netcom.com
Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:52:51 -0500


>Do you set one up for one set of bands and the other for
>the rest or what?  I stuck up a milti-band antenna I could use on
>one radio or I could just put the 160, 80, 40 on one and the 20,
>15 10 on the other.  

 I use Top Ten units here ... similar to W2UP's setup.

>Or is there a better way to split up the bands/radio's?  

Before I went with the autoswitching, this is what I used:

RIG A    160 40 15
RIG B      80 20 10

The above would be much more useful to you, and you can
add a simple dipole perhaps to supplement your present
antenna options there. Any antenna, as a rule, is better than
NO antenna ... 

> Also, what works better, stubs or filters?  

Yes ... !  :-)

Each rig here has it's own Dunestar 600 AND for the lower bands, 
stubs have been added. The weak link here is the use of the tribander 
stacks. With monobanders I would suspect the "crud" would be less.

Stubs as a rule are cheaper to make and easier to use, IF you are
using band dedicated antennas (say a 20m dipole), when you go
with multiband antennas, then the switching needs some thought.

73 Billy AA4NU