[CQ-Contest] ARRL DX varying Power levels sent by DX

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

This seems to get hashed over every year.  From my memory, it has been 
said to pick a power and stick with it for the entire contest.  Same for 
your check in SS.  It should be easy for the judges to see a change in 
power levels and mark those logs as outliers or inconsistent.  They 
don't even care if it is accurate.  Pick a number and carry on.

Are people changing checks and power levels on purpose in an attempt to 
confuse or penalize people or over thinking the rules? What would be the 
reason to use differing power levels?

K has become the 599 of power, used even by stations that were not 
authorized to use that much power.  At V3M we used 99  or NN instead of 
100 or 1TT.  One of our radios was a KX3 only capable of about 10 watts 
outs.  We certainly did not send different power reports from each radio.

Mike W0MU


On 2/23/2024 7:45 AM, Jim Smith wrote:
> Mike VE9AA wrote:
>
> On the different power levels, yes, sometime Saturday I edited 3 (separate)
>> previous QSO'S because I (mistakenly?) thought I must've got sloppy
>> overnight and copied the previous power level wrong.
>>
>> Being at an M/2, we did the same thing (because you don't know who was
> tired/QSB/whatever).  After reading 3830, I wonder if we are going to lose
> a bunch of Qs because we 'corrected' stuff as we went.
>
> I guess my new personal rule is: copy what is sent (always do that anyway),
> don't futz with the log, swear under your breath when you work a station
> that has changed their exchange, and see #1.
>
> 73, Jim KK0U
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