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The 13 Colineis Event continues……
6 July 2020 | by 
The 7610 has what is called "Dual watch" this utilizes the two completely independent receivers in the radio. This allowed me to leave VFO A (listening with my left ear) on a spotted frequency listening for a lull in the activity. VFO B (listening with my right ear) was moving around on the same band or different band hunting for a nonspotted colony station calling CQ. If VFO A was getting really crazy with callers but I wanted to stick it out for the just in case moment, I am able with a push of a button to mute VFO A. With each receiver you have filter, twin passband, NR, NB and antenna choices you can make to help out with you dealing with band conditions. Finally, as you can see from the screenshot above I was able to activate the "Dual scope" option and have a separate waterfall for 20m and 15m or you can do it for the same band as well. I have always been an Elecraft person (I still have the KX3 so I guess I still am) but I am very impressed with the 7610 a great bang for your buck!
At this point, I am looking for K2C out of RI and GB13COL in England and I want to continue using CW as all other stations were logged using this mode. At this point in time I have found that K2C spends little time on CW and as for GB13COL many have said they just cannot hear them and I concur. It 's getting down to crunch time as the 7th is the last day so let's see if the ham gods are smiling on me?
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I’ve been kind of frustrated this year trying to do this. Band conditions when I’ve tried are not in my favor, here in Utah.
And if you can fix the headline, there is a little spelling mistake that really sticks out. 🙂
Good evening Trevor very nice to hear from you, as for the spelling mistake once I posted on my blog I spotted it right off, for some reason this change did not make it in time to amateur radio dot com site. Once it’s posted here unless I make a major change in the post it will not be reposted here. I have tried to make some minor changes and repost it but it does not seem to change things here at the amateur radio site. I will keep trying a few other ideas to get it to change.
73,
Mike
VE9KK
“The 13 Colineis Event continues…” Yeah, Colineis > Colonies – typo.
To be honest, I’m surprised that any event called “13 Colonies” hasn’t been called RACIST! and burned down by now – which would be very bad for all of us.
Good morning David and thanks for stopping by, yup for sure it’s Colonies and not Colinies…Once the blog was published I saw it. Funny thing about that I proofread the blog a few times and never saw it, I guess the eyes saw what they wanted too. I reposted the blog post again with the corrections. (see blog post just above this one) I asked Matt to remove this blog post but it has not been done as yet. Lesson learned I have now downloaded a third party spell check for those just in case moments.
Have a great week David.
73,
Mike
VE9KK