On Aug 3, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Tom W8JI wrote:
> As far as I recall the 5 watt QRP thing wasn't popular at
> all on HF until solid state. Like TT says 100W used to be
> considered QRP.
I was just looking at the 160m history information on your own site,
Tom, and seems like there were plenty of guys in the 30s who ran a
handful of watts.
And there are certainly a lot of Novice rigs from the 50s and 60s
that only managed a few watts out. The "Novice Special" comes to
mind, at about 10-15 watts input.
And what of all those single-tube crystal oscillators? Those could
only do about 30 watts input or so without blowing the crystal.
All this stuff was QRP -- all homebuilt, too. I think it was just a
matter of getting on the air with whatever you could managed to use
at the time.
Running QRO became a lot more affordable in the 60s. Seems like it
was the early 70s when people started to recognize QRP efforts.
Perhaps some of it was nostalgia.
> I think the thing that stops QRP rigs is the fact most
> people don't enjoy intentionally making other people
> miserable.
QRP is its own sub-hobby, and can be a lot of fun. Isn't for everyone.
Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
-- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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