Hi Dave and Bill,
Well, I concur with Dave here, and we have even made contact during a
contest whilst Dave was running QRP.
There are often QRP stations in contests, and I have recently worked an
IK8/QRP and an LZ2/QRP station in the last couple of contests, so it can be
done.
If the bands are quiet, with few signals, then QRP RTTY can work really
well. An example from me that occurred earlier this year was that I had just
retuned on to 10m late one evening in a contest, and decided to go get a
coffee. When I came back, there was an LU8 calling CQ just about where I had
left the rig tuned. I netted onto him, and called him, and didn't think much
more of it.
A bit later, I tried someone else, and they kept saying QRZ?? AGN, and it
was only then I saw that the power level wasn't moving!
I had worked the LU8 with about 2 watts.
Having said all that, I wish I had a nice beam, and a kilowatt, so I might
have stood a chance of getting K1B, but sadly, I couldn't even hear them, so
an amp wouldn't have improved anything here.
I did get TI9M, PW0T and XR0X, so I can't complain, and they were all done
with 100 watts or a bit less.
If only folk would spend money on improving antennas before adding amps!
As you already have an amp, then run your rig at low power, and use the amp
to get about 100 watts out, and you will have a ball!
As for the Anatolian contest, well, I may well give that a try, as I may
have my "new" 2nd hand IC756 running by this evening, and I would like to
give it a try before ANARTS. Last year, there wasn't much activity, so bear
that in mind.
Hope to see you all at some point in the contest..............
73 de Phil GU0SUP
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