[Elecraft] Dueling CQ During Mixed Mode 10 Meter Contest

[Jeff Stai]

hi Dave - That was me, not Ted. No worries. Sometimes it hard to sort out.

The full QSK idea sounds worth trying once you get it all working. Since
most of my contesting is RTTY I hadn't considered that.

The interlaced CW and phone transmit sounds crazy but could work - as long
as it switches cleanly (as you noted). You could model it to hear how it
sounds by rigging a CW signal to selectively mute a received phone signal.
I don't have a clear idea on how to do that (as I type) but I bet someone
here does. I do think it would elicit a lot of "hey, your transmit audio is
all chopped up" reports, but in a slow band that's OK ;)

have fun and good luck! - jeff wk6i

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:38 PM, KGØUS <kg0us at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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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