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Re: [CQ-Contest] History of Low Power Category

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] History of Low Power Category
From: Tom Osborne <w7why@frontier.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:40:45 -0700
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That is a strange rule.

It is illegal to run an amp to get to 100 watts, but it not illegal to run a radio that puts out 400 watts in the NAQP. If they outlaw amps, why not outlaw radios that put out more than the NAQP limit

I personally would like to be able to run my amp in the NAQP RTTY so I can crank my exciter down to 20 watts or so. To get to 100 watts now, I have to run it full bore. 73
Tom W7WHY




On 9/16/2014 12:20 PM, Steve London wrote:
On 09/16/2014 12:20 PM, John Unger wrote:
I think I remember that a number years ago ARRL or NCJ changed the NAQP
from 150W to 100W. As I recall, one of the reasons given was that then
stations would not have to use amps to get up to the 150W level. I was
surprised at that revelation mainly because I had never thought of doing
it! Maybe that ~1dB would have helped...

I will confess that at that time I had a TS-830S that would put out 85 watts on a good day. Running the amp to get to 150 watts is 2.5 dB. I won that NAQP, so they had to change the rules to prevent another win from happening again :) .

73,
Steve, N2IC
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