What started this whole discussion was that Pat apparently wanted to test
out some kind of new setup. Why would he want to use high power when he
had the opportunity to test his setup against a level playing field running
low power?
There is an aspect to this that I feel needs to be more fully addressed.
When a high power station plays in this contest, that station has a greater
opportunity to hold a run frequency and maintain a pileup. To me,
operating high power in NAQP for whatever reason hurts the competition among
the
contestants whose scores count. In effect, the high power station deprives
legitimate competitors a slice of the spectrum.
You can read the rules two different ways. One interpretation is that it
is OK to run high power and submit a check log, the other interpretation is
if you run high power you will be penalized by not being able to submit a
log for scoring purposes.
If I owned an amplifier, I wouldn't want to make a lot of noise at the
expense of others slugging it out using low power.
Paul K5AF
In a message dated 1/11/2016 2:09:37 P.M. Central Standard Time,
xdavid@cis-broadband.com writes:
Personally, I don't have a problem with non-entrants using high power in
the NAQP. I do, however, have a problem with the boorish use of
"entitlement" to belittle those who do. It's a simple minded
generalization almost every time people use it.
As an aside, how exactly does running high power help anyone with their
power line noise?
Dave AB7E
On 1/11/2016 8:45 AM, W0MU wrote:
Seems like the entitlement age has now reached contesting. You can't
work someone because you think he is running HP and that is his
problem and not yours? Maybe he has S9 powerline noise or was not
listening in your direction.
Nobody forced you to "waste" a lot of time trying to work this guy.
How many mults and contacts did you miss by not turning the dial.
Isn't one of the skills of contesting know when you can and can't get
through and when to move on?
Me me me me me me ...I need the mult, I was calling, I wasted.
This is contesting. A Significant portion of the contestants really
aren't. They are passerby's simply operating by the terms of their
licenses. The airwaves belong to the public not the contest.
I thought I had heard it all.
W0MU
Here's a simple example of why we care from last night on 80M. In S&P
mode, I was calling a station who had a considerably better signal than
many from the east coast I had worked, but I wasted a lot of time trying
to get his multiplier.
Another example -- I'm running S&P and calling another station I need as
a mult and a high power station wins the jump ball. He's 12 dB louder by
virtue of his power amp, not his antennas or distance.
73, Jim K9YC
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