Some years ago I worked V73C on 40 meters in the ARRL CW DX contest.
He was just booming in. He gave 005 as his power.
I asked him about it later. He said he was indeed running 5 watts but
had a beam over salt water. It was the loudest 5 watts I ever heard.
73, Zack W9SZ
On 8/20/11, Radio K0HB <kzerohb@gmail.com> wrote:
> That'll show 'em, Al! Who do they think they are anyhow? Engineering up a
> nice antenna farm, and buying a nice AL-1200, while their neighbor gets on
> with 100W, leaky coax, and a low dipole. Don't they have any respect for
> the little guy?
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> "Just a (little) Boy and His Radio"
>
>> My solution to this issue is simple. I just don't work the big signals if
>> everything else coming from that area is S-9 or less compared to the 40
>> over 9 signals I hear from the "big guns". If enough of us do that in any
>> contest and the scores of the "big guns" go down as a result, perhaps a
>> lesson will be learned. Let your ears do the policing.
>
>
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