[CQ-Contest] `150 watt limit question

[John Geiger]

It appears that for the ARRL contest, and maybe for CQ contest, 150 watts
is the break point between high and low power.  Does anyone know why that
limit was set?  It would seem that changing it to 200 watts would make more
sense, in that low power would be barefoot, and high power would be with an
amp (or with a Yaesu FTDX9000MP barefoot).

It seems that there are 3 radios that doe 150 watts barefoot-the Kenwood
TS950, the Icom 781, and the JRC JST-245.

There are quite a few radios that do 200 watts barefoot-Yaesu FT1000D,
Yaesu FT1000MP MK5, Yaesu FT2000D, Yaesu FTDX9000D, Yaesu FTDX9000C, Yaesu
FTDX5000, Icom 775, Icom 7800, Icom 7700, Icom 7851, Kenwood TS990.

That is one reason why 200 watts seems to be a more logical dividing point,
but what do I know?

73 John AF5CC