When BPL takes hold, this will become very common.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip Landmeier" <felipe@conexion.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] ANOTHER SMELLY SUBJECT
> As your message came in Zack, I was about to say the same thing. I
> only run a little peanut-whistle station these days but if a station
> is fairly strong I can ALWAYS work them on the first call.
>
> This last contest, while I was working Europeans right and left,
> there was an Italian station who was calling his head off and
getting
> some answers. He was LOUD here in Florida and yet he could not hear
> me AT ALL. When a weak station calls, a running station will at
least
> stop and try to work you. This guy kept on calling like I didn't
even
> exist. I came back to his frequency every few minutes for a while
and
> then gave up. What's up with that?
>
> The thought did cross my mind that he was running quite a few db of
> gain that was not coming from his antennas :-(
>
> Phil
> KW2P (ex AB7BS)
>
> On 3 Apr 2004 at 19:19, Alan C. Zack wrote:
>
> > Could these be the few, very loud, stations in Europe that don't
seem
> > to be able to copy the stations trying to answer them when several
> > stations are calling back at them?
> >
> > James Neiger wrote:
> > >
> > > While we are focused on packet mis-use and all that blather,
should we also
> > > be interested or concerned about another smelly subject that is
probably
> > > even more rampant? What is that, you ask?
> > >
> > > The blatant and illegal use of super high power in contests.
> > >
> > > Is it happening? You bet it is. Some who do are even seemingly
very proud of
> > > the fact (when I was in Slovenia for WRTC2000, one very well
known European
> > > operator came up to me and bragged that most everyone who is
competitive in
> > > his area were running Henry 8K's).
> > >
> > > And I've personally seen tubes in amplifiers, actually multiple
of such
> > > tubes, capable of running 10 KW, and up. In very well known,
world
> > > competitive stations.
> > >
> > > Does anyone care? Or do we just kind of wink, grin, approvingly
shake our
> > > heads in awe, and go have another brewskie in the 7th floor
Dayton suite?
> > >
> > > Vy 73
> > >
> > > Jim Neiger N6TJ
> > >
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> > Amateur Radio Station K7ACZ
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