[CQ-Contest] History of Low Power Category

[Steve London]

On 09/16/2014 12:20 PM, John Unger wrote:
> I think I remember that a number years ago ARRL or NCJ changed the NAQP
> from 150W to 100W. As I recall, one of the reasons given was that then
> stations would not have to use amps to get up to the 150W level. I was
> surprised at that revelation mainly because I had never thought of doing
> it! Maybe that ~1dB would have helped...

I will confess that at that time I had a TS-830S that would put out 85 
watts on a good day. Running the amp to get to 150 watts is 2.5 dB. I 
won that NAQP, so they had to change the rules to prevent another win 
from happening again :) .

73,
Steve, N2IC