Not when you are down at the bottom end of Africa!!!! From here low power
is pure masochism - no fun at all.
This fact, plus faulty antennas, meant that I left 10m alone this past
Sunday. It is hard enough making oneself heard with high power (for us that
means 400W) when pretty much no-one actually beams in this direction. 100W
from here is an exercise in frustration, and I don't do frustration very
well!!
Looking forward to the Roundup - should have my antennas fixed by then
(after 3 months of almost constant buffeting by strong winds)
73 de BARRY MURRELL ZS2EZ
KF26ta - Port Elizabeth, South Africa
website : www.zs2ez.co.za
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Gedking@aol.com
Sent: 06 December 2011 04:06 AM
To: aa5au@bellsouth.net; rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest
You can work the world with 100 wts on 10 Mtrs so high pwr don't make any
sense on 10 mtrs.
I could say more but shut up for now.
ED K8OT
In a message dated 12/5/2011 7:02:37 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
aa5au@bellsouth.net writes:
It's OK to run high power and submit a log as CHECKLOG. I thought about
doing it myself since I knew I was going to be a CHECKLOG,
but decided against it because high power on 10 meters kills the telephone
part of my UVerse and the wife would have killed me. I
think running low power is more challenging although running high power is
probably more fun.
73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com
-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Phil Cooper
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 2:38 PM
To: 'RTTY Contesting'
Subject: [RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest
Hi all,
I've just seen the 3830 summary for this contest, and I am a little
puzzled.....
The rules clearly state (3.) 100 watts output maximum.
And yet, some have put themselves into the HP category!
I am assuming they thought that as there is no QRP category, or only ONE
power level, they would use the HP section in the 3830
form?
But, having said that, I suspect that several stations were using a bit
more than 100 watts.
I heard several EU/AS stations that were so loud they had copyable signals
above and below their Tx frequency. Maybe overdriven AFSK
can account for that as well, but these stations were end-stopping on the
meter, whereas most folk were S6 - S9.
Over the past months, I have found it better to reduce output power,
especially when CQ'ing. In WAEDC and CQWW, I was down to around
50 or 60W out, and in this one, I ran at about 70 watts, apart from
calling the VP2 and the PJ2, for which I pushed out the full
100!
Just my thoughts.....................
73 all
Phil GU0SUP
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