Charly, if you are really using an antenna of your farm, I don't think that you
can listen anything while your partner is transmiting. The only way to do that
is to use, as you have said, a REMOTE antenna, and I think that it's forbidden,
at least in all the contests I've ever Known.
However, if you are really using an antenna of your farm, and despite the fact
that you won't be able to listen when you parthner is TXing, you'll be able to
help him catching callsigns that he couldn't listen because of the pileup or
because of his main antenna beam direction. I think that there are many
contest-logger programs that gives you the posibility of doing that with the
proper setup of your station as a support station of the main one. I've done
this in a dxpedition with Wintest, and it helped me a lot to reaching high
rates, because you don't lose any change asking for callsigns. With this
config, your partner could see what you have heard in his main screen as if it
was the cluster window, and then he'll have his chance to use what you have
heard if he hadn't listened a full callsign.
To put it briefly, I also like being supported or just trying to help
supporting the main station, but in my case, we don't have many people in our
team so that we could do this. I hope one day...
73!!!
Javier Gómez, EA5AER
(EA5KM team on CQ-WW-CW-2013)
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 02:51:39 +0700
> From: hs0zcw@gmail.com
> To: cq-contest@contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Why and why not do this?
>
> At a huge contest station I did this....... Ten meters was my mult
> assignment but it was dead, really dead. So, bored and using a remote 40
> meter antenna, I listened to the 15 meter run station and heard the people
> calling in while the Run Op was transmitting.
>
> However, because there were fewer callers while the Run Op was
> transmitting, I could copy their call signs. I did and passed a paper note
> to the Run Op who could then call the next station without the Run Op
> having to listen at all. Because of my giving him a caller, he could move
> to the next guy immediately, not even needing to say QRZ.
>
> The Run Op did this for ten or so exchanges and was working very fast
> because he never had to listen through the pile, only listen for the other
> guy's exchange and then call the next guy with no pause.
>
> Run Op did not like me and stopped doing this, but I saw clearly how great
> a system this is. Has anyone else tried it?
>
> --
> Charly, HS0ZCW
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