[Elecraft] Two Receivers

[Wes]

I probably shouldn't give away secrets but if you try this on some big 
DXpeditions, you will be sorely disappointed.

For example when I was calling VP8STI on RTTY (my friend AA7A operating) I tried 
calling on his last listen frequency but he never seemed to call two stations 
who were on the same frequency.  So I started looking for a pattern; many guys 
will tune up (or down) a few Hz or kHz and pick another caller.  This didn't 
seem to be the case either.  After nearly two hours I finally determined his 
pattern was.... he didn't have one, he randomly tuned after every Q.  I finally 
picked a relatively clear frequency and called for awhile until he found me.  I 
queried him about this later and he confirmed.

In either of these cases you really don't need a second RX to figure this out.  
Your time is better spent learning sequences and planning when and where to call 
instead of constantly tuning trying to find the last guy worked. Besides all of 
the other two-receiver guys who don't know any better are going to be calling on 
the same frequency too.

Wes  N7WS

On 5/17/2019 11:27 AM, William Levy wrote:
> snip---Interesting thing that 2nd RX. You put
> the DX on the RX and you find the guy talking to him with the transceiver
> and that is called a SLAM DUNK.---