John,
My experience with top contest stations is similar to yours.
Someone posted earlier about a percentage spread of hams using various
amounts of power from QRP to illegal levels of QRO. The percentage above
1500 watts reminds me of the percentage of rush hour drivers observed daily
crossing the double white line on the right (illegal) to pass other cars.
They seem to care little (if at all) that they are part of the cause for the
traffic jam at freeway on-ramps. Both groups hold about the same esteem in
my book.
73, Keith NM5G
-----Original Message-----
From: amps-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:amps-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of W0UN -- John Brosnahan
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 2:38 PM
To: amps@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [Amps] RE : who needs it? Henry 8K
At 11:14 AM 5/23/2006, R L Measures wrote:
>Doug -- When I was occasionally running the Plywood Box 20db amplifier
>on 40m, and I was answering questions about it over the air, the FCC
>received a number of letters about me from complainants. Thanks to an
>FCC employee who happened to be a Ham who guest operated at multi-multi
>contest stations, I learned that the majority of these letters came
>from owners of contest stations whose amplifiers used tubes that had
>handles.
>- cheerz
Rich--
This sounds like a cheap shot to me. I have been contesting since 1959 and
have operated at many multi-multi stations as well as some single-op
stations and I have yet to see any CONTEST station with "tubes that had
handles". Now I cannot speak for California since I have never operated a
contest there, and I do know some USA DXer stations that have big tubes, but
for the life of me, I can't think of a single, serious contester in the USA
that has tubes with handles.
What I do know is that a lot of multi-multi contest station owners are
absolutely adamant about keeping within the 1500 watt limit.
--John W0UN
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