[CQ-Contest] QRP cheating

[Radio K0HB]

Doesn't hurt to be in Wyoming either.




It isn't the number of watts that makes you loud.  It's the size of those watts.





But spare us the weak signal mantra about how anyone running a large station with good antennas is an inferior being.  QRP isn't hard to send --- it's hard to hear.




73, de Hans, K0HB

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Dale Putnam <daleputnam at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  let's face it "4.7 watts to any good 
> antenna has considerable limitations on 160 meters. Just try it sometime.
> I have... and will again... 
> WAS in one weekend on 160... QRP! 
> NOT with a 4 sq either... but with ONE short vertical of 40 ft height.
> limitations? YES.. not being heard by a whole herd of folks that couldn't 
> hear nearly as much as they were covering up with their own LOUD TX. 
> I'm just sayin.. what my own experience has been. And I expect not a whit 
> of change next time either, except the propagation changes, and THAT, only 
> One controls.
> (much to our dismay, at times)
> Have a great day, 
>  
>  
> --...   ...--
> Dale - WC7S in Wy
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