Jim,
The amount of power you run is not as important as the type of antennas
you are using. You can't possible agree that a station running low power
and stacked yagis is equal to someone using dipoles? In fact I proved
this point earlier this year when I ran high power in the January NAQP
SSB contest. I heard many stations on scatter who were supposedly
running 100 watts (based on the 3830 postings) who couldn't hear me
calling them and I was running 600 watts. There are several stations
that I hear in NAQP every year who are just way too loud on scatter to
be running 100 watts.
BTW the NAQP was the replacement for the old CD Parties that were being
discontinued by the ARRL. I was in that smoked filled room way back in
the 1980's at the ARRL National Convention in Louisville, KY when the
idea of the NAQP was dreamed up. I don't seem to remember if the old
ARRL CD parties were only low power contest?
Jeff
On 8/7/2018 11:48 AM, Jim Brown wrote:
On 8/7/2018 6:48 AM, N4ZR wrote:
ARRL 160 CW and ARRL 10M contests got rid of this anachronism a few
years ago - it's time for NAQP to follow suit. I don't know who
decides such things, but trust that Chris will know who needs to take
action.
I strongly disagree. NAQP is what it is BECAUSE of the no-cluster, Low
Power Rule.
73, Jim K9YC
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