[CQ-Contest] Re: Power Level? (and Rates)

[k1dg at ix.netcom.com]

dr. Bafoofnik wrote:

>My question is this, my exciter has a terrible leading spike,
>this momentary 50 kw pulse won't make me illegal will it?

My friend W9XR is definitely a leading Spike, and often exciting, but in no 
way terrible. He can run as much power as he wants, and I won't consider him 
illegal. As long as he keeps buying the beer at Dayton.

Or maybe we need a category called "momentarily illegal"...like "temporary 
insanity"? In which case Spike qualifies for both.

Doug K1DG
k1dg at contesting.com

p.s. A couple of comments on this rate thing...my best 1-hour SSB rates from 
the Caribbean have been 325 to Europe (usual rates are in the 200+/- range 
at the peak of the opening) and 412 to the U.S. (usual rates 300-350 at the 
peak). Accuracy seems to be fine. My American English language skills are 
much better than my Italian, Serbo-Croat, German, French, Russian, British 
English, Swedish, Finnish, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Bulgarian, etc. skills. 
I just talk faster than N6AA. Except when I'm Homer, who cain't seem to 
break that danged 300 rate, but shore can run them fowahs better'n me.



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