>From: Marijan Miletic <s56a@s55tcp.ampr.org>
>Reply-To: S56A@S55TCP.ampr.org
>To: i4jmy@migate.ampr.org
>Subject: [CQ-Contest] Continental USA WPX debate
>Mauri, I4JMY takes very scientific approach to contesting and claims:
>> If a little 2-3 DB could make to copy or not, an extra 20 DB is an
>> enormous amount, often impossible to be overcomed.
.... expecially because affects the path in both ways.
>The trouble is, that some Italian stations use 20dB more than their 300W
>legal input power and generate one-way propagations as they simply can NOT
>hear DX replies with a reasonable power! And that has nothing to do with
>ionosphere, radiation angles, hops etc... It is a question of money and
>time as knowledge accumulates or can be even bought.
Unless Marijan himself did experience some 30KW amplifier, getting
confirmations of such theory in his recent Italian ARRL MM phone
effort from II3T or may be somewere else, this comment only reminds
to the famous tale of "The Fox and the Grape" where the Fox has been
caught by the unreal myth of the "italian defrosters", but gives no
real remedia to overcome the unavoidable phisical reason, the distance.
Moreover, to hear or not to hear among nearby stations is often a
matter of local noises, such as power lines or any RF generated by
other industrial plants, when not a temporary situation due to a
wave skip or antennas at different heights.
Not everybody is so lucky to have a mountain peak or a low-level
industrialized area where setting his contest station.
In any case, the propagation is not "generated" by amplifiers,
knowdlege can't be bought, while a ticket to some good place yes.
It's anyway better not to leave home if missing one of them.
>Fortunately, not much attention is paid to the comments outside of continental
>USA. Al, NH7A does not count as CA resident :-) Even Rich, KL7RA, former East
>Coast contester 1968-1971 didn't get any feedback on a very revealing
>statement:
The above comment is sounding twice obscure:
first, until a Contest pretend to be a WW one, it's hard to understand
why intelligent people should not pay attention to all the comments,
wherever they came from.
Second it looks like if Slovenia is one of the continental state of USA.
73,
Mauri I4JMY (one of IR4T)
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