I avoided an amp for years, for the same reason, I live in a sub-division,
very close neighbors, when I first moved in, had trouble with the one
neighbor when on my temporary butternut installation......after nearly 18
yrs barefoot I recently purchased an SPE 1.3K-FA and reluctantly tried it
out, low power at first, half expecting the phone to ring, but
nothing...tried a few different antennas and a few different bands, but
other than getting into my own sound bar on the TV, no calls,......next
night tried more antennas and more power, other bands....nothing....soon I
was running at full power and tried all antennas....nothing....been 5 weeks
now and no one has said anything.....and you are right, power is no
substitute for skill, made honor roll with 100w from a small
lot.......BUT.....I gotta tell you.....skill AND a AMP make you deadly!!!!!
worked a lot of new ones on 160 and 80 recently, including all the African
dxpeditions.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Thom
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 1:11 PM
To: rtty@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Greater than 600 watts for RTTY
I have been thinking a lot about buying some form of amp for my shack to
do 400-600 watts on RTTY. Then looking out my shack window I am
reminded that I have a lot of really close neighbors and I do not want
to put them at risk with even more RF exposure. I also have a really
small lot.
I am real lucky that the powers that be in this mobile home park I
reside in even lets me have radio, of any kind.
So 100 watts and better antennas are my options.
I just hope that I make it physically to the next sunspot peak. I did
really well with 100 watts during the last one.
QRP operators have a motto that I have lived by for years. "Power is no
substitute for skill."
73
Thom KI8W
On 3/25/2017 12:51, Neal Campbell wrote:
At the top of the pecking order is operator skill.
Neal Campbell
Abroham Neal LLC
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Ed Muns <ed@w0yk.com> wrote:
The key factor missing from the top portion of this "pecking order" is
QTH,
both macro (Lat/Lon) and micro (hilltop or valley; saltwater, etc.).
Ed W0YK
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Dave K2YG wrote:
If you're out to win a contest in the high power category, or to get
rare ones on the first or second call, go for the max. But here 400
watts or less has gotten 344 DXCC entities on RTTY, 5 watts has 268 and
1 watt 146 countries. Pecking order is propagation, then antenna and
power.
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