<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Denny Sahovic, KX7M <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:radio@kx7m.net" target="_blank">radio@kx7m.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Has anyone managed to run SO2R with 2 computers, 2 radios (of course), and simple audio mixing without any SO2R boxes? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Many top SO2R ops prefer to operate this way, using Win-Test with two keyboards, and two networked computers (e.g. N6MJ, N5KO). Hardware interlocks are mandatory, otherwise the risk of transmitting two signals at the same time is far too high, and you can easily be disqualified.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Does Win-Test support some software interlocking?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>None whatsoever, if you use two computers. It probably wouldn't be fast enough anyway, and there would inevitably be some tens of milliseconds of TX overlap at some point in the contest when you tried to transmit on both radios at once.</div>
<div><br></div><div>73,</div><div>Bob, N6TV</div></div>