Topband: Listening

[jbattin]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Karlquist" <richard at karlquist.com>
To: "Jon Zaimes AA1K" <jz73 at verizon.net>; <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 9:20 PM
Subject: RE: Topband: Listening


> > Ivo raises a good point. I found many stations would come back
> > with one call and them seem to disappear. With more than a dozen
> > Beverages to select, if a station is weak it may take a few tries
> > to find the right one! Persistence pays off.
> >
> > 73/Jon AA1K
>
> I ran into this problem as well.  In fact, I reduced the
> number of beverages from 12 to 6 because of this problem.
> My east beverage is totally deaf to the north to Oregon
> and Washington.  It also helps, if I send "agn" for the
> station to send his call 2 or 3 times.  I am planning to
> try dual receive with the FT1000D next time with separate
> beverages into each ear.
>
> Rick N6RK
>

As a partial solution I am able to select more than one beverage at a time,
and then "peal " them back if need be.
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