It's OK to run high power and submit a log as CHECKLOG. I thought about doing
it myself since I knew I was going to be a CHECKLOG,
but decided against it because high power on 10 meters kills the telephone part
of my UVerse and the wife would have killed me. I
think running low power is more challenging although running high power is
probably more fun.
73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com
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From: rtty-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces@contesting.com] On
Behalf Of Phil Cooper
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 2:38 PM
To: 'RTTY Contesting'
Subject: [RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest
Hi all,
I've just seen the 3830 summary for this contest, and I am a little puzzled.....
The rules clearly state (3.) 100 watts output maximum.
And yet, some have put themselves into the HP category!
I am assuming they thought that as there is no QRP category, or only ONE power
level, they would use the HP section in the 3830
form?
But, having said that, I suspect that several stations were using a bit more
than 100 watts.
I heard several EU/AS stations that were so loud they had copyable signals
above and below their Tx frequency. Maybe overdriven AFSK
can account for that as well, but these stations were end-stopping on the
meter, whereas most folk were S6 - S9.
Over the past months, I have found it better to reduce output power, especially
when CQ'ing. In WAEDC and CQWW, I was down to around
50 or 60W out, and in this one, I ran at about 70 watts, apart from calling the
VP2 and the PJ2, for which I pushed out the full
100!
Just my thoughts.....................
73 all
Phil GU0SUP
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