[TenTec] RE: Dual Receive

[Hawkins, Bill]

This is my response to my own posting.
I received about 10 replies to this post and ALL said they use
dual receive much of the time. Nobody agreed with me.
I still say I will have trouble trying to understand two frequencies but
maybe I better dust off the OMNI D and start practicing.
I stand corrected.
Bill W5EC

At 06:59 AM 5/14/98 -0500, I wrote:


>I have used TenTec transceivers since 1978. At that time the OMNI D had
>the outboard vfo and had the capability of dual receive. I could listen to
>2 frequencies at one time. I tried that maybe twice and found that I couldn't 
>do that any better than listen to 2 conversations at home at the same time.
>I could switch back and forth between them or operate split with ease.
>I use split with my OMNI 6+ all the time chasing dx but I don't  need to 
>listen to 2 frequencies at the same because I couldn.t understand
>either one. As far as sending one frequency to one ear and another 
>frequency to the other ear--hahahahahahahahahahaha.
>I'll wager that most folks with dual receive capability don't listen to 
>2 frequencies at the same time either.
>Bill W5EC 
>
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