It is very easy when you have the WX0B SO2R control box! I prefer the left
radio to be run and right to be mult or S&P even tho I am right handed.
Bob, AK6R
----- Original Message -----
From: "JayTerleski" <jterleski@home.com>
To: <don.chisholm@home.com>
Cc: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Stacking - it's not just for yagis
>
> I respectfully disagree,
>
> Either radio must be able to be the run radio at any time.
>
>
> This is maximum flexiblity and truely the best use of two radios.
>
> Jay, WX0B
>
>
>
> don.chisholm@home.com wrote:
> >
> > I, too, have (had) my right radio as the RUN radio and the left radio as
the
> > S&P radio. However, this thread has provoked me to re-think this setup.
I
> > am right handed, so naturally my "main" radio went on the right. But
would
> > it not make sense to have the *left* radio as RUN, because it is
manipulated
> > less often? That way the S&P radio is on the right and, assuming it is
to
> > be fiddled with way more frequently, it can be dealt with using the more
> > coordinated hand and fingers.
> >
> > Obviously this would all be reversed if you were left handed. Hmmm . .
. .
> > .
> >
> > Don
> > WX3M
> >
> > Don Chisholm
> > don.chisholm@home.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <K3BU@aol.com>
> > To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2244
> > Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Stacking - it's not just for yagis
> >
> > >
> > > In a message dated 6/26/01 5:04:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > w4pa@yahoo.com
> > > writes:
> > >
> > > > If the radios
> > > > are side by side, you always have to have the left
> > > > radio in the left ear, and the right in the right
> > > > ear. Try running two rigs with the left rig audio
> > > > on the right ear and vice versa. Ugh!
> > > >
> > >
> > > I can have each radio on both ears (foot switch or computer
controlled),
> > or
> > > if split, left R on left E, right R on right E and I know which ear
> > (sound)
> > > is from which radio. Why would I want to have left R on right ear?
(Unless
> > my
> > > ears were defective and needed to specialize my ears for particular
mode
> > of
> > > operation?)
> > > That is the whole point of the setup, being able to identify which
radio
> > is
> > > doing what by knowing which ear is hearing it. My ears are so far
still
> > > working OK.
> > > I am specializing on operation with 2R on the same band, and typically
> > right
> > > R is used for CQing, and left R is used for S&P or for diversity
reception
> > on
> > > CQing frequency if pileups too heavy.
> > > My mileage may vary, but is getting better as the kinks are being
ironed
> > out
> > > and whole mess is mastered.
> > >
> > > Yuri, K3BU
> > >
> > >
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