[CQ-Contest] N6TR's QRP SS

[Randy Thompson, K5ZD]

I too spent time this weekend wondering if I was going to get beaten by a
guy running 5W!!  Great score Tree.

With the strength of the QRP stations this past weekend, it did strike me
that the SS would do very well as a contest with a 150W output power limit.
We could just have Q and A categories - completely eliminate the high power
category.

Let's face it, we don't really need a KW to work around the USA/Canada.
Since you only need to work once, there is no need for power to make
marginal QSOs on the low bands.

If you look at the results, A is the most popular category anyway.

It will have more of an impact on Phone SS than CW, but not sure that it
wouldn't make Phone more interesting and competitive as well.

Of course, anyone could still go to KP2 or KP4 and win...

Randy, K5ZD

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-admin at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-admin at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bill Fisher, W4AN
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 03:10 AM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] N6TR's QRP SS
>
>
>
> Maybe some of you missed it, but N6TR operated from the mostly broken
> (thank Lilly) W5WMU station this past weekend as QRP.  Results:
>
> Total: 1105  Sections = 79  Total Score = 174,432
>
> He bested superman N5TJ's record from 1997 when Jeff managed to beat the
> old record by more than 37K (that is 181 QSOs).  Tree managed to work more
> than 50 more QSO's than Jeff did in 1997.  At one point when I dropped in
> to see how John was doing at my station, the only comment he made was
> that N6TR was only (I believe) 30 QSOs behind him operating with 1500w!
>
> Oh, I also think Pat also deserves a lot of credit for getting the station
> patched back together for Tree.  I don't have all the details of what he
> accomplished in just a few days, but maybe Tree can fill us in.
>
> Great score OM!  Hopefully nobody will feel compelled to fly to KP4 to
> prove how much better they are than you.  ;)
>
> 73
>
> Bill
>
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