Can someone please explain to me what is the purpose of the "power" number
in DX's reports to North American Stations in the ARRL DX contest ? A
couple of local VE4s worked a certain Italian station with "Q4A" in the
suffix who was giving out "59 100" reports. Yeah, right 100 watts. This
guy is opening and closing the band to Manitoba and he's running 100w.
I DON'T THINK SO.
I very much enjoyed Paolo's (I2UIY) article in NCJ Jan/Feb '94 p. 14.
regarding "Contestmania" and cheating in contest operations.
I had heard of the type of cheating that went on but little did I realize
that it was so blatant. No one can tell me that station was running less
than SEVERAL kilowatts. I have no problem with that when they enter in the
HIGH Power category. However, when I have to compete with them in a city
lot with a REAL 100w that's where I draw the line. This whole thing is a
joke. Is there no way to police this kind of thing ?
To Paolo: I suggest you forget the calculators as an incentive for the ARI
contest. Take the money, effort and time and try to motivate some of your
fellow contesters to work within the rules of the contest. Besides, how
well could those calculators work next to several kilowatts of RF. I wish
you good luck, you certainly have a big job ahead of you.
73 Rob VE4GV
>From oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) Sun Mar 6 22:12:37 1994
From: oo7@astro.as.utexas.edu (Derek Wills) (Derek Wills)
Subject: ARRL DX Power Rprts
Message-ID: <9403070412.AA06757@astro.as.utexas.edu>
VE4GX asked:
Can someone please explain to me what is the purpose of the "power"
number in DX's reports to North American Stations in the ARRL DX
contest ? A couple of local VE4s worked a certain Italian station
with "Q4A" in the suffix who was giving out "59 100" reports. Yeah,
right 100 watts. This guy is opening and closing the band to Manitoba
and he's running 100w. I DON'T THINK SO.
He was as loud as a local on 40, but running "300" there... perhaps it
was 300 KW.
I find it interesting to know what power people are running, to the extent
that the numbers are reported correctly, but nobody is going to admit in
public, and once per QSO, that he is running more than the legal limit.
The JAs used to give 50 watts as their power on 10m because that was the
legal limit there, but they sounded the same as they did on 15 where they
were giving numbers 10x greater.
Well, perhaps the Italians just have pretty good antennas :-)
Derek aa5bt
>From Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> Mon Mar 7 04:28:50 1994
From: Trey Garlough <GARLOUGH@TGV.COM> (Trey Garlough)
Subject: ARRL DX Power Rprts
Message-ID: <763014530.467887.GARLOUGH@TGV.COM>
> Can someone please explain to me what is the purpose of the "power" number
> in DX's reports to North American Stations in the ARRL DX contest ? A
> couple of local VE4s worked a certain Italian station with "Q4A" in the
> suffix who was giving out "59 100" reports. Yeah, right 100 watts. This
> guy is opening and closing the band to Manitoba and he's running 100w.
> I DON'T THINK SO.
The purpose of the "power" number is to give some data for stations to
exchange, which could potentially have some correlation to the actual power
the stations are running.
I believe this issue is best explained as a matter of pragmatism. Seems
I remember in Italy that there is a license class with a 300 watt power
limit, and one with a 100 watt power limit. Of course, a lot of the
I-boys are running TL-922A's and so forth, but clearly they are not going
to get on the air and say 59 KW, because that would be in poor taste.
Similarly, I remember the power limit on 160 in Lithuania being 10 watts,
and I remember working UP1BZZ on top band (599 010) when I lived in Texas,
but I never had any illusions about them really running 10 watts. In fact
this is so commonplace on top band, that there is an entire repetoire of
jokes about it. When you ask the big dogs how much power they are running,
you typically get answers like "10 Irish Watts" (EI8H) and "10 Lithuanian
Watts" (UP1BZZ).
As far as obeying rules and this kind of thing, I leave it to the I-boys
to sort it out among themselves. Even though it is "illegal" there is an
competitive understaning that a TL-922A is ok. This is no different than
in the states where there is a 1500 watt power limit, that if you are in
New England is interpreted as 1500 watts, 2500 watts if you are in Houston,
and 15 KW if you are W6KH.
I am not advocating these interpretations, just acknowledging that they exist.
--Trey, WN4KKN/6
>From jdesmon@nwnt07.nts.uswc.uswest.com (John Desmond) Mon Mar 7 05:11:13
>1994
From: jdesmon@nwnt07.nts.uswc.uswest.com (John Desmond) (John Desmond)
Subject: W0AIH ARRL 1994 DX Phone Score
Message-ID: <9403070511.AA10968@nwnt07.uswest.com>
1994 ARRL DX PHONE BREAKDOWN - W0AIH
Multi 2
Section: Wisconsin
Band QSO's Mults
---- ----- -----
160 25 19
80 79 43
40 161 66
20 544 102
15 656 117
10 210 53
----- ---- ----
TOTAL 1675 400 Score: 2,007,600
DE K0TG
jdesmon@nwnt07.mnet.uswest.com
k0tg@amsat.org
k0tg@hamlink.mn.org
>From Silvergran Jonathan, SEME" <josi@telub.se Mon Mar 7 21:19:00 1994
From: Silvergran Jonathan, SEME" <josi@telub.se (Silvergran Jonathan, SEME)
Subject: QSX 7019
Message-ID: <2D7B99F0@noak.vxo.telub.se>
First of all I would like to thank all NA stations for all QSO's we got in
the contest. Unfortunately the conds were
poor most of the time on 10, 40 and 80m, so we didn't reach previous years
totals.
This year I heard something on 40m that feels like a step in the wrong
direction. Some US stations were
calling CQ listening on frequencies below 7040. I believe that they got many
QSO's by doing so, but the
problem is that SSB is not allowed between 7000 and 7040 in IARU region 1.
The conclusion of this must be that most of the European stations responding
on lets say 7019 can be
disqualified since they deliberately have violated the rules for amateur
radio in their country. In worst case,
they are probably putting their own licenses in danger by operating outside
the SSB segment.
I doubt that this will happen, but it's still a bad trend. No one knows
where things will end up if we start
tampering with contest rules and local legislation.
Please try to stick to listening frequencies over 7040...
73
Jon, SM3OJR (op at the M/2-stn SK3IK)
josi@telub.se
>From Paul Hellenberg <Paul.Hellenberg@mixcom.mixcom.com> Mon Mar 7 13:00:45
>1994
From: Paul Hellenberg <Paul.Hellenberg@mixcom.mixcom.com> (Paul Hellenberg)
Subject: KS9K MULTI-2
Message-ID: <199403071300.NAA05452@mixcom.mixcom.com>
KS9K MULTI-2
160M 26 20
75M 121 57
40M 270 79
20M 1067 135
15M 1139 140
10M 202 61
_________________
2824Q 492 = 4.162 MIL
OP'S KS9K + K9GS,N9AU,NB9C,WB9TIY,WE9V
Only problem's was a rain storm Sat nite which sure hurt the low band's.
Paul Hellenberg KS9K
paul.hellenberg@mixcom.com
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