[Elecraft] Dueling CQ During Mixed Mode 10 Meter Contest

[KGØUS]

Hi Ted,

"But given that you have to listen between CQs, that's a long time between 
CQs in each mode: 

CW-listen-phone-listen-CW-listen-phone... 

I think you'd be better off just calling a tighter cycle in one mode at a 
time, or using true SO2R with a second radio/antenna (if possible). Just my 
opinion."

I would mainly use the dueling CQ on mixed mode during the 10 meter contest
when it would be very slow in an attempt to generate some activity.
Also, I would like to transmit the wav file first, then immediately transmit
the CW using full QSK.  Using full QSK, I would hopefully be able to hear a
phone station coming back to me in between my CW dots and dashes.  If I
heard a phone station, I would simply hit the ESC key and work them.  I
would like a 1.5 second to 2 second pause after the CW transmission before
continuing with the phone wav file transmission.

This might be totally crazy, and it may cause undesirable interference
products, but I would like it if I could transmit both the wav CQ on phone
and the CW CQ pseudo simultaneously.  I know that the phone operators
listening to my CQ would hear the CW gaps but I think that it would still be
intelligible.  If this where possible then there would only be one gap for
listening.

Lastly,  I did setup my K3 with phone on the main receiver and CW on the 2nd
receiver.  I was hoping to search up and down the CW portion of the band in
the gaps between phone wav CQs.  However Writelog would not transmit in CW
after I found someone to work in the CW portion of the band.  I switched
focus to the second call entry window and pressed F4 (my callsign) and
nothing happened.

73,
Dave KG0US





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