As your message came in Zack, I was about to say the same thing. I
only run a little peanut-whistle station these days but if a station
is fairly strong I can ALWAYS work them on the first call.
This last contest, while I was working Europeans right and left,
there was an Italian station who was calling his head off and getting
some answers. He was LOUD here in Florida and yet he could not hear
me AT ALL. When a weak station calls, a running station will at least
stop and try to work you. This guy kept on calling like I didn't even
exist. I came back to his frequency every few minutes for a while and
then gave up. What's up with that?
The thought did cross my mind that he was running quite a few db of
gain that was not coming from his antennas :-(
Phil
KW2P (ex AB7BS)
On 3 Apr 2004 at 19:19, Alan C. Zack wrote:
> Could these be the few, very loud, stations in Europe that don't seem
> to be able to copy the stations trying to answer them when several
> stations are calling back at them?
>
> James Neiger wrote:
> >
> > While we are focused on packet mis-use and all that blather, should we also
> > be interested or concerned about another smelly subject that is probably
> > even more rampant? What is that, you ask?
> >
> > The blatant and illegal use of super high power in contests.
> >
> > Is it happening? You bet it is. Some who do are even seemingly very proud of
> > the fact (when I was in Slovenia for WRTC2000, one very well known European
> > operator came up to me and bragged that most everyone who is competitive in
> > his area were running Henry 8K's).
> >
> > And I've personally seen tubes in amplifiers, actually multiple of such
> > tubes, capable of running 10 KW, and up. In very well known, world
> > competitive stations.
> >
> > Does anyone care? Or do we just kind of wink, grin, approvingly shake our
> > heads in awe, and go have another brewskie in the 7th floor Dayton suite?
> >
> > Vy 73
> >
> > Jim Neiger N6TJ
> >
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