[Amps] 87A vs. IC-PW1

[Jim Brown]

I am celebrating my 50th year in ham radio, have held an Extra 
ticket since 1959. I first learned to use QSK in 1956 when I 
worked lots of traffic nets. And I've been a contester since the 
late 50's. I probably made 50K contest Q's before I finished 
college 41 years ago! I bought my first power amp in 2004.

QSK is important for at least two reasons. Competitiveness is 
certainly one of them. But the other reason I consider CW ops who 
don't use it lids is because they are more likely to interfere 
with other hams. That has ALWAYS been an important part of being a 
good operator, and when we're running higher power, that becomes 
increasingly important.  

Jim K9YC

--Original Message Text---
From: Gudguyham at aol.com
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:53:28 EST

In a message dated 2/22/2006 1:52:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, wa7fab at cdsnet.net writes:
Gee....guess you can include me in your list of lids, there Jim!  Over 50 
thousand cw contest q's and never a qsk contact among them.  And you 
probably ought to include another 70 thousand from our group of pretty well 
thought of DX ops that operated as XZ0A in 2001 from Myanmar of which I was 
one.   Van, K7VS



Kudos Van