[CQ-Contest] What's with the power = 0 watts exchange?

[Mats Strandberg]

So my message during the weekend should have been 5NNKW/00 ;)) - partial
power

It seems to me that Ria might ”have solved the code” ;)

73 de RM2D Mats

On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 at 03:59, rjairam at gmail.com <rjairam at gmail.com> wrote:

> My guess, just a guess - is that the puerto rico folks are protesting
> the situation on the territory where they have NO POWER.
>
> 73
> Ria, N2RJ
>
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:58 PM, John W <xnewyorka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm playing a little in the ARRL DX contest and I've noticed something
> new that I don't recall from previous years.  Several DX stations have sent
> their power as zero watts.  I've received  5NN T,   5NN TT,  and 5NN TTT
>  so far.
> >
> > (For some reason, nobody is sending something more precise like 0.0
> (would that be  TRT?)
> >
> >
> > What is the reason for this?   I must have missed the memo.
> >
> >
> > At least one of the stations was in Puerto Rico. So I was wondering if
> his zero meant that he has no commercial power at his station.  Maybe I'm
> reading into it too much?
> >
> >
> > And one South American sent "LP" for his power.  So does that mean he is
> using a generator that runs on Liquid Propane?  😉
> >
> >
> > The rules at http://www.arrl.org/arrl-dx say:
> >
> >
> > 4.2 DX stations send signal report and power (number or abbreviation
> indicating approximate transmitter output power).
> >
> >
> > Where I come from, transmitter power is measured in units called WATTS.
> >
> > So I would expect the exchange to be either a number, or an abbreviation
> for a number, for example using 'cut' numbers.   "LP" is not exactly that.
>  But I get it - it probably means 100 watts, or at least "no amplifier".
>  But what does TTT mean?  That must mean "approximately 0.499 watts or
> less".   Yet the guy was 10 dB over S9, so I doubt that.
> >
> >
> > Ahh well, got to do something to keep it interesting when condx are in
> the toilet.
> >
> >
> > Hope everybody caught the brief but glorious 10m opening this afternoon.
> >
> > P40W was 15 dB over S9 in NNJ for more than 10 minutes!
> >
> >
> > 73,
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> > W2ID
> >
> >
> >
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