[AMPS] Re: Italians and power?

[Paul Kiesel]

When I was in Europe during the late '60s, the problem
on 40 meters was desensing of the receiver front end
due to in-band broadcasting. I remember having to turn
my RF gain control way down in order to copy stations
in the US.

Paul      K7CW


--- Jan.E.Holm@telia.se wrote:
> 
> 
>       Yes, I think QRM is the answer to most
> problems. During CQWW
>        there is simply too many stations on the
> bands at the same time.
>        I don´t think the Italians run any more power
> then anyone else so
>        please don´t pick on them.
>        USA is the only country I´ve seen amplifiers
> runing 25 - 50 kW
>        so why not leave the Italians alone.
> 
>        de Jim SM2EKM
> --------------------------------------------
> 
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> Skickat:	 den 1 november 1999 10:00
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> Ämne:	VB: Re: [AMPS] Italians and power?
> 
> 
> > Anybody have any stories of how much power those
> guys are actually  
> using?
> >
> 
> I think you USA guys seriously underestimate the
> level of QRM that is  
> normal
> in Europe. 40m in particular, being only 100kHz
> wide, with only half of  
> that
> available for SSB, has heavy QRM everywhere almost
> all of the time on
> contest weekends.
> 
> I want to know why yesterday, in the contest on 10m,
> some s9++ Eastern  
> USA
> stations could not hear me, yet several s5 stations
> in the West could.  
> Could
> it be QRM again ?
> 
> 
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