[CQ-Contest] NAQP Power Level

[David Gilbert]

Personally, I don't have a problem with non-entrants using high power in 
the NAQP.  I do, however, have a problem with the boorish use of 
"entitlement" to belittle those who do.  It's a simple minded 
generalization almost every time people use it.

As an aside, how exactly does running high power help anyone with their 
power line noise?

Dave   AB7E


On 1/11/2016 8:45 AM, W0MU wrote:
> Seems like the entitlement age has now reached contesting.  You can't 
> work someone because you think he is running HP and that is his 
> problem and not yours?  Maybe he has S9 powerline noise or was not 
> listening in your direction.
>
> Nobody forced you to "waste" a lot of time trying to work this guy. 
> How many mults and contacts did you miss by not turning the dial. 
> Isn't one of the skills of contesting know when you can and can't get 
> through and when to move on?
>
> Me me me me me me ...I need the mult, I was calling, I wasted.
>
> This is contesting.  A Significant portion of the contestants really 
> aren't.  They are passerby's simply operating by the terms of their 
> licenses.  The airwaves belong to the public not the contest.
>
> I thought I had heard it all.
>
> W0MU
>
>> Here's a simple example of why we care from last night on 80M. In S&P
>> mode, I was calling a station who had a considerably better signal than
>> many from the east coast I had worked, but I wasted a lot of time trying
>> to get his multiplier.
>>
>> Another example -- I'm running S&P and calling another station I need as
>> a mult and a high power station wins the jump ball. He's 12 dB louder by
>> virtue of his power amp, not his antennas or distance.
>>
>> 73, Jim K9YC
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