[Elecraft] What's New at Dayton? dual rcv

Wed Apr 30 13:58:01 2003

Hi Jack. Don't know if anyone got back to you on this. At least I didn't see
any comments on this end.
 To me, dual receive is very useful. Actually stereo dual receive is what I
want.
Some examples:
Working DX split on any band and on phone or cw.
- When a DX station is operating split, with stereo dual receive you can
listen to the DX station in one ear and the pileup in the other. Basically
you can call until you hear the DX station come back to someone. If the DX
station works tailenders, you will know when to precisely call and exactly
what freq if you can listen to the pileup freq while listening to the DX
station.
- When the DX station moves around for listening, with dual receive you can
find if there is pattern or at least call him/her on the freq he just worked
someone.
- QSK on CW is nice for dual receive. Actually QSK is nice anytime you are
calling a pileup. When I'm the cause of the pileup, I rather not use QSK -
gives my ears a break.
- If you are trying to work a station that is going by call areas, you can
listen in one ear while you are operating transceiver with someone else off
frequency. This way you know when to be ready to call.

Unfortunately, the current line of Icom radios doesn't offer stereo dual
receive. Yaesu still has it. My old Kenwood TS950SDX has it.
It would be nice if there was a way to tie together 2 - K2's so you could
have stereo dual receive.
73,
Tony
N2TK

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Jack Brindle
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 15:19
To: Bill NY9H
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] What's New at Dayton? dual rcv

On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 08:13  AM, Bill NY9H wrote:

> since there is not a new radio.(K3).. maybe there is an adapter, using
> the auxbus, so two K2s can work together,  dual receive.... for split
> DX- operation??????

Bill;

How would this work? Are you trying to listen on both YOUR transmit
frequency as well as the dx station's transmit frequency? Is this for
40 meters SSB  use where they transmit down in the low part of the band
and we transmit up in the US voice portion?

You can probably tell, I'm not a DXer, _yet_. But after 30 years of
hamming I might as well expand my horizons...

-Jack Brindle, WA4FIB
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