>
>An interesting point of view Tom and somewhat justifiable. However you may
>have missed the "spirit" of QRP. The thrill for *most* QRP'ers is not
>necessarily the fact that *they* worked the other guy, but the fact that
>anybody at all heard their tiny signal. Most QRP'ers appear to get more of
>a kick out of working another QRP'er than they do working someone with a
>farm full of towers and antenna's. Being heard by a well equipped contest
>station - well hell, that's a given; no big deal there.
>
// If it turns out to be that there is a place called Hell, all the
signals in that abode are quite probably hellishly weak.
>...
cheers, Phil
>
>At 09:39 PM 8/16/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> > I'm not a DX'er so it's revealing to hear about the high power
>> > philosophy.
>> > About 6 months ago a friend of mine starting working DX with 100 watts and
>> > a dipole. Today he has the 1000MP mark V, the big amp, the tower, the
>> > beam and is spending many bucks "buying" QSL's.
>>
>>When we work DX with QRP the OTHER GUY should get the
>>award and pat on the back, not the QRP guy.
>>
>>He is the poor $#% who has to have a good system and skills, not
>>the weak signal guy. He is doing all the work, you are doing no
>>more work than the guy running QRO.
// Good point, Tom
>> ... ...
>>Being proud of QRP is like being proud of being on welfare, and
>>thinking the fact you can get other people to work to feed you
>>somehow makes you a great skilled survivor.
>>
>>73, Tom W8JI
- R. L. Measures, 805.386.3734,AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures.
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