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RE: [CQ-Contest] Question for Experienced SO2R Ops

To: "'Scott R.'" <w4pa@yahoo.com>, <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Subject: RE: [CQ-Contest] Question for Experienced SO2R Ops
From: "Dick Green WC1M" <wc1m@msn.com>
Reply-to: wc1m@msn.com
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 12:22:34 -0400
List-post: <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com>
> My radios are equal - two of the same model, into two amps 
> that are approximately the same power, antennas switched by 
> band by the SixPak, so any radio can be either run or S/P 
> immediately as needed.  Makes those band changes sometimes 
> not a change of anything.  Run on 15, S/P 20, want to switch 
> them?  Hit Alt-R on TR-Log and now I am running on 20 and S/P 
> on 15.  Most antenna switching, fooling with rigs, tuning 
> amps are eliminated unless I go to a different band - and 
> even then it's only changing the band on the rig, a fast knob 
> turn on the amp and clicking the SixPak.  What a time saver.  
> And that's what contesting
> is: an efficiency study. 

Better yet, add a pair of band decoders to the SixPak and you don't have to
do any antenna switching at all! BTW, Writelog has a "switch VFOs" command
that makes it easy to swap roles.

73, Dick WC1M
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