How about a contest for real worl ops:
Tribanders at 50 feet
NO amps allowed
Wire sloper or dipole on 40 & 80 (one for each band allowed)
and minimum S7 noise on all bands.
We might find some REAL operators !!!
gl in WPX to all de Bob AA9DX
>From scole@abby.cyborg.bt.co.uk (STEVE COLE) Thu Mar 28 14:13:49 1996
From: scole@abby.cyborg.bt.co.uk (STEVE COLE) (STEVE COLE)
Subject: POWER!
Message-ID: <9603281413.AA09500@abby>
To: CQ-Contest@tgv.com
Subject: POWER!
Re: POWER
In the recent "debate" (?), someone said:
"I believe all S/O and M/S entries throughout Europe use around
1-3 KW and the organisers know this....."
Oh yeah? Well, NOT SO HERE, I run a 16 year-old SB220 complete with
original tubes and keep to the (U.K.) license rules on power, i.e. 400
Watts peak output from running it in CW mode, if I ran anymore then I
guess the amp would have blown years ago, in stead I run it at a
conservative level and stay within the rules.
One of the European contesters visited me last year and asked "Where`s the
Amp - you know, the REAL amp?" He was surprised to see nothing more than
the ole `220.
73 Steve GW4BLE.
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