[CQ-Contest] Cheating - Big Amps

Mon Sep 5 17:42:36 PDT 2011

WOW!!

Old saying is: "attack is best defence". Those were cheap shots.

First of all, I have announced my little experiment publicly among my 
contest club members, secondly I was not exposed (sadly)and that is why 
I wrote my little story.

On the other hand you are the one who is exposed and believe me I have 
nothing personally against you. You are just the one who is in front as 
committee member and perfect example of power cheater as dozens of other 
top stations in EU.

To answer your first question, what am I trying to say.

You can not judge me and other rule obeying contesters. Based on your 
BS written below I call for your resignation as member of CQWW contest 
committie. It would be honorable thing to do.

Maybe readers from across the pond are not fully aware of WIDE signals 
from your station and many others, but we in EU can easily see who is 
running "juice".

BTW your story about overhead power and saving your amplifiers in RTTY 
mode is another big BS.

I ran Alpha 8100 at 1500w for 48 hours in RTTY mode for several years 
now without problems. Even Alpha users manual states that amplifier has 
to be driven at design power otherwise it will heat up, which we 
experienced when tried to operate at 750W.
Everybody with some amplifier building knowledge is familiar what 
happens when you run amplifier at 1500w designed with output filter for 
5+ kW. It is not properly tuned and splatter is one of the products.

So, either you are uninformed, ignorant or just playing dumb, I can not 
say.

I stand by my claim that you are cheater and now can say liar too.

This is end of pissing contest for me, I leave you to fuel your ego 
with all that extra power and 300km/h car.

Danny, E73M and N4EXA
  http://www.e73m.com

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 00:09:17 +0300, Tõnno Vähk wrote:
> What are you trying to say Danny?
>
> You are calling me names after you were exposed with cluster cheating 
> in
> CQWW and you cheated in Low Power category running KW or more?
>
> I have never tried to hide the fact that I own a lot of different ham
> equipment including many commercially made amplifiers (solid state 
> and
> tubes). I have tested very many of them through the years to find 
> reliable
> ones that would allow me to leave my station to other contesters or 
> kids
> for the weekend not being afraid of things breaking.
>
> I am not ashamed of those pictures, opposite to that. I have always
> invited anyone to visit my station and I am happy to show my 
> equipment. I
> am happy if people look at those pictures on the local school website 
> that
> you provided. I asked those pictures to be posted and I am happy 
> about
> scouts and schoolchildren often coming to my station and operating 
> and
> that we have youngsters joining our hobby. What on earth makes you 
> think
> they are operating those amplifiers to their limits or breaking any
> rules??
>
> Since when is it illegal to own amplifiers capable of over 1.5 KW?? I 
> have
> a car that goes over 300km/h, is it illegal?? I have internet, yet I
> operate without cluster in un-assisted category! I do drive my car
> responsibly and I drive my amplifiers responsibly. And I demand from 
> any
> ops in my station to do the same and not touch or retune the setup 
> that I
> have prepared per band.
>
> I have tried to build a setup with one amp for each band, that is why
> there are many amplifiers on my pictures. That allows fast band 
> changes
> with no tuning. And I want them to be running on half power or less 
> when
> people operate 48 hours RTTY contest from my station when I am not 
> there.
> Obviously I have tried to acquire amplifiers that would remain cool 
> when
> doing this and they have a lot of buffer. I am not living in my QTH 
> and
> can only go to my station 1-2 times a month. I cannot allow anything 
> to be
> broken because of being operated close to their limits. Emtron amps 
> are
> less expensive than some legal limit stuff that will never handle a 
> 48
> hour RTTY contest.
>
> Are you saying everyone who ones amplifiers capable of over 1.5KW 
> output
> are cheaters? Are you crazy? You can find such amps on web pages of 
> many
> recent EU and World winners, most of them have such amps capable of 
> 3-4KW
> when pushed to the limit. You know yourself how many OM amps are out
> there. If you ask from top 5-10 EU stations in any HP or multi op 
> category
> if they have an amp that is capable of producing over 1.5KW then I 
> think
> there are very few if any who can say no. Buffer is extremely 
> important if
> you want to be able to build a reliable station. I have 3-5KW rated
> antenna switches, tuners, connectors, band pass filters, etc. Is this
> illegal and prohibited? Same with amps.
>
> When I operate SOAB I use a pre-tuned amp on every band for Run radio 
> and
> ACOM 2000A on S&P radio because of the ability of selecting between 
> up to
> 10 different antennas per band segment and fast band switching.
>
> You Danny and anyone else interested is always welcome to my station.
>
> 73
> Tonno
> ES5TV
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:cq-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of e73m at e73m.com
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 4:25 PM
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Cheating - Big Amps
>
>
> I do not have a problem with guys showing their big amps on the web 
> but
> what message is sent by member of CQWW DX contest committee, ES5TV.
>
> Proof in pictures is here: http://www.palapk.edu.ee/main.php?l=35
>
> If you have trouble counting big amplifiers in his shack I will help
> you, there were at least two DX4 (5kW+), three OM3500, Two LV6 
> (Russian
> military surplus) and ONE!!! ACOM 2000. How many 1500 Watts he 
> actually
> uses per antenna?
>
> 73 Danny Horvat, E73M
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