Someone mistakenly interpreted my earlier comment about uniques and high
power versus QRP as a knock on the abilities of QRP ops. That was
certainly not my intention. This is what I sent him:
NO!!!! You miss my point entirely. I have the utmost respect for QRP ops
and their abilities. If you qrp you better be good or it's a very slow,
boring contest. A qrp op usually S&P's, answering CQs, so the guys
calling CQ won't be a unique. High power guys call CQ often and could be
called by any one, including the guy running 5 watts to a bedspring who
works 15 minutes for a contact and then quits--unique. I did not mean to
cast aspersions on qrp--but only to point out that the operating styles
lead to different levels of uniques. Similarly, I would expect that an
S&Per (QRP??) would have a better busted record because he knows who he is
calling (packet errors aside) while a CQ'er could have alot more busted
trying to pull out the calls in the noise and qrm. Just different
operating styles and accuracy results. Sorry for the misunderstanding!!
73 Saul K2XA
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