On 02/05/2015 09:45 AM, Wayne Kline wrote:
I my self enjoy the HUNT.... the listening on the other VFO trying to guess what and how he is operating.. Some OP's are predictable some it's a crap shoot. but that the FUN IMHO.... My .02 and then some
And folks will have that same challenge and fun with RHR or other remote station provider.
Using a remote station, having the big hardware and right location in no way guarantees an easy QSO. I consider myself a pretty good operator using Wayne's techniques, and it still took over an hour to work K1N on 160 the first night. But the real clincher is that another nearby operator, using an antenna with ~8 dB of gain over my shunt fed tower, never did work them that first night.
In all of this anti-RHR discussion, you are forgetting the role of the operator and skill.
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