On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote:
> ....Of course many end up with both.... ========= If your main interest is chasing DX, you just have to have 2 receivers, because you gotta listen to the pileup. Now let's say you're tuning through the pile, looking for the guy he's working -- where is he? Hard to find him because the pile is sooooo wide. This is where a bandscope is valuable. The wider the pile, the more potential value the bandscope offers. Sometimes you can spot the guy right away, get the subreceiver on him, and hear him, and boom! The scope can be invaluable when the pile is very wide and you are tuning and tuning but never finding the station who is working the DX. However, the bandscope alone will not do this job; you gotta hear what's going on. You can't tell just from looking at the pips who is doing what. So the second receiver is a must. OTOH, in a contest you can tune through the pile with the RIT, because everybody is packed together. Then the bandscope is more valuable, especially for search & pounce, because you can just cruise along the band spotting signals and picking 'em off. Receiver #2 doesn't necessarily add anything that you can't get with RIT. For the best of both worlds, get both. 73, Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
