I agree with that "you would be surprised what you can work" statement on
QRP. Our local club worked QRP/battery one field day and as a QRO guy I was
stunned at both the rate and the relative ease in holding a frequency. Our
antennas were decent from a FD perspective but not great. A very
educational experience. Especially for a guy who managed to draw overnight
duty on 80m with storms in the distance. An opportunity, they said, for
developing my "160m ears." Uh huh...
73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Barr
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 8:03 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: [RTTY] QRP in contests
Well, I am surprised. It seems that the (at least vocal) majority of
the RTTY contesting community has little respect for qrp in a contest,
or perhaps it's just for any weak signal.
Any contest is a challenge... contesting... contest. Maybe the
nay-sayers need better antennas or rigs or ears or software or
fill-in-with-your-brain capabilities. I am very surprised at the NPOTA
complainers. The difference between operating portable at 5 watts and
at 100 is night-and-day logistically.
Perhaps the best thing for you folks to do is to crank it down to 5
watts and see what you can work. I promise you that you will be
surprised. And with few requests for repeats.
73, Dave, K2YG
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