On 10/30/2013 11:17 PM, Rick Bates wrote:
If you DX, it's a great tool to add BUT: you want to consider a P3 if you don't already have one.
Strongly agree. I've got P3s for both rigs in my SO2R setup, and take them to FD and CQP expeditions, and both rigs in my SO2R setup have the SubRX. The second RX is VERY nice to have, for the reasons Wayne noted, but if dollars were limited, I'd lean strongly to the P3 as the FIRST way to spend them. Why? Because the P3 gives you a view of empty bands (6M, 10M), of pileups, and of RFI sources. All those applications for the 2nd RX that Wayne noted are also quite useful if you need them.
The P3 tells you more about the pileup than the SubRx and how might interact with it, and it does the empty band and RFI thing, but it doesn't do diversity. I have Beverages, and I find them useful from 160 to at least as high as 20M. You can assign them to the main RX which can help with weak signals, but you need the 2nd RX to do diversity, which can help even more. Diversity is most useful on 40-160.
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