[NLRS] Rovermania: Reaching out to others to generate growth

[Gerald]

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:27 -0500, jcplatt1 at mmm.com wrote:
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> One thing that seems to be missing in the formula is lack of a reasonably
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Trouble with the multiop station these days is that the rover or the
other stations working through the bands don't pause long enough on any
band but the one (2m typically) used for coordination to hear a tail
ender. Used to be that a station (or one operator of a multiop station)
could specialize in 432, another on 222, another on 1296, another on 2m)
and could make a decent score. Today with this aberrant operating
technique the single band station without the coordinating band often
can't make any contacts at all. That station will hear lots of stations
but as each makes a schedule for another band no amount of tail ending
power will get contacts. The last thing heard is QSY, then silence. So
there isn't much operating advantage to the multiop station, not like
there used to be. Band switching even in the rover is too simple and
quick. I'll make the claim that a multiband station could double its
score by saying QRZ and then listening for ten or 15 seconds before
changing to the next band scheduled. It just might be that both stations
with the schedule could make several contacts before they had a chance
to QSY IF THEY ONLY LISTENED BEFORE HITTING THE BAND SWITCH!!!!

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73, Jerry, K0CQ
Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer
All content copyright, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson