On 5/9/2021 9:09 PM, Wes wrote:
But back to the issue at hand. If I'm tuned up and working on 20-meters but want to quickly listen to 10-meters for instance, why should I have to transmit on 10 just to switch antennas?
It's an auto antenna tuner, with memories that, hopefully, have been trained. So it's no trick to tune the rig to 10M, hit a dit to recall that memory, tune around (or study the waterfall if you have one), and either stay there or tune the rig back to where you were, hit another dit to recall that memory, and you're rolling.
I have an SO2R station, with multiple antennas and auto-switching of many of them based on band-data. So it's no trick to listen on the other radio. And I also have other RX antennas I can use. Each of us builds as much of a station as we want and can afford and/or have the energy and space for. Even on a Chicago city lot, I had two tri-band dipoles for 20-15-10 (one with traps, the other a fan), and another loaded dipole that I could use on 40, 80, 160, and most of the WARC bands. None were higher than 40 ft.
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