Regardless if the a signal is QRP or just plain weak in a contest is someone
who insists on sending everything over and over versus just what you ask
for. How many of us have heard...
Your Call DE Their Call (Sometimes Their Call/QRP) then QSL - UR (Exchange)
- HW BK versus just what you ask for. "And why do they insist on sending
all this at 12 WPM?"
When rates are high I'm going to work every call I can get in the log as
soon as I know what it then work my way through to the weakest.
What I want to put out about signing /QRP in a contest....
First, I ALREADY know you are weak and I'm going to have to work hard to get
you in the log. I WANT to work weak QRPers because there is a good chance I
can make that contact and others will not. This makes for vertical
separation in the contest score listings :>) But this is also true for
wretched signal 100w stations who done something amazing to get up an
antenna AT ALL in their situation. QRPers have no mojo advantage over
someone who gets up a working 160 antenna in a 75'x75' HOA lot. Nod goes to
the HOA guy here.
Second, some QRPers obviously have very good antennas and are 579....WAY out
in the clear. They send their call and exchange exactly once like they're
QRO, and we have each other's call in each other's log in ten seconds. It's
really not the power, it's the antennas, and the operators.
Third, and most important, if I am struggling to get your call out of the
noise, /QRP down in the muddle confuses the h**l out of me and may be THE
ONE reason why I'm not copying your call.
Fourth, and most irritating, I long ago lost count of the number of times
that /QRP was the **ONLY** thing I was sure of when I finally gave up and
said SRI TRY LATER. At least the postage stamp lot guys running 100w to a
super-fold antenna are not tempted to send /HOA
/QRP = Terrible, Terrible practice.
QRPers, I'm begging you, please tell your QRP friends....
73, Guy
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 11:58 -0500, W0UCE wrote:
>
> Maybe and experienced QRP OP can answer a question for me and please note
> the question is not intended to anger anyone or start a flame. I would
just
> like to learn something - "Why?"
>
> So here is the question: Why do some using QRP continually send /QRP
after
> a CQ, their call or a contest exchange? In a contest I don't care if the
> station I work is QRP, LP or QRO - a QSO is a QSO.
>
> The same when calling CQ or during a rag chewing - Why send /QRP? To me it
> makes no more sense than someone sending /100w, /LP, /1500w or /QRO after
> their call.
>
> 73,
> Jack
>
> _______________________________________________
> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
Hi Jack,
I rarely attach /QRP to my call. The exceptions might be in a QRP
contest (sprint) where other hams are searching for QRP stations. I send
my call and see what happens next the same as everybody else. I started
working QRP with a brand new ham license in 1980 and I still haven't
exceeded 100 watts. All of my transmitters *CAN* produce more than 5
watts up to 100 watts for some of them. All of them can dial down under
one watt, too, and are most often under 30 watts. Sometimes QRPp is just
not appropriate. On the other hand, if I need to scream at full legal
power I would prefer to go play my music for a while. Or find a ham band
with better propagation.
If other QRP ops want to hang that /QRP on their call well that is their
choice and has no effect on me at all. If they're calling CQ and I hear
them I'm up for a chat.
73,
Bill KU8H
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