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Date: | Fri, 6 Mar 2015 21:53:21 -0700 |
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I heard something tonight during the ssb contest I don't believe I've heard
before but often wondered why it couldn't be done; especially with two CW
operators. In this case, PJ4G was on 15 sideband when I first heard them.
I listened for quite awhile and suddenly realized something had changed. At
first, I thought they had changed operators but as I continued listening to
the exchanges made, the voice of PJ4G changed again. I listened more and
heard the other voice, that is, another operator, answering stations and
making the exchange. The only real reason I noticed this was the second
voice was British while the first sounded Midwestern. Plus, the original
voice I copied had hum on his voice occasionally. I'm assuming they were
using two microphones on one transmitter and whoever picked out a call
first, or jotted down two or three calls in the pile up that the primary
operator had missed, answered and made the contact. I noticed it was 2 or
more calls as if they had been jotted down. I always figured this could be
done easily on CW and while two worked a channel, a second transmitter would
be used to search and pounce. I also enjoy listening to the phonetic reply
digital reply programs that some of the stations are using. I frankly think
that would slow the exchange down vocally since the response is repeated
phonetically instead of just replying with letters and numbers but then
again, I noticed the station operator occasionally answering without the
phonetic responder. All in all, times have changed. I wonder if we will
get to computers working computers while we go out skiing or to the beach
during the contest weekend, haha.
Phil.
K0NX
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