Humm, let me think. Challenge or Fun? Since much of day to day life is a
challenge in and of itself, I vote for FUN! That being said, the challenge
of running this contest at 100W from AK with a half height tower due to the
wind was more than offset by the fun of having 10M alive and well again.
Had this inaugural contest been held last year I think I would have had more
fun trying to poke a grizzly bear out of its den!
Thanks for the new contest Don and Ed. Oh, and thanks too for the spots
Don, always appreciated.
73,
Gary AL9A
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Hill AA5AU" <aa5au@bellsouth.net>
To: "'RTTY Contesting'" <rtty@contesting.com>
Sent: December 05, 2011 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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