[RTTY] Power

[Ford, Steve, WB8IMY]

Paul:
 
This weekend I dabbled for about 4 hours (total) in the North American RTTY QSO Party using a Yaesu FT-817 with 5W output to a random-wire antenna in the back yard. With a very casual effort I netted 40 contacts, which included Lithuania and Hungary.
 
Steve
WB8IMY/1
 

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Paul Saunders [mailto:p_saunders at superweb.ca] 
	Sent: Sun 7/20/2003 8:29 PM 
	To: rtty at contesting.com 
	Cc: 
	Subject: [RTTY] Power
	
	

	Hi Guys,
	
	Being new to rtty I have a question about power, my rig will only put out about 30w on a full duty cycle, will this be enough.  I
	have been copying some of you over the past week and a lot of people seem to run high power. What are my  chances of working DX with 30w and a dipole antenna.
	
	73 Paul VO2PRS
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