[RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest

[Don Hill AA5AU]

It's OK to run high power and submit a log as CHECKLOG.  I thought about doing it myself since I knew I was going to be a CHECKLOG,
but decided against it because high power on 10 meters kills the telephone part of my UVerse and the wife would have killed me.  I
think running low power is more challenging although running high power is probably more fun.

73, Don AA5AU
http://www.aa5au.com
http://www.rttycontesting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Phil Cooper
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 2:38 PM
To: 'RTTY Contesting'
Subject: [RTTY] Re the 10m RTTY contest

Hi all,

I've just seen the 3830 summary for this contest, and I am a little puzzled.....
The rules clearly state (3.) 100 watts output maximum.

And yet, some have put themselves into the HP category!
I am assuming they thought that as there is no QRP category, or only ONE power level, they would use the HP section in the 3830
form?

But, having said that, I suspect that several stations were using a bit more than 100 watts.
I heard several EU/AS stations that were so loud they had copyable signals above and below their Tx frequency. Maybe overdriven AFSK
can account for that as well, but these stations were end-stopping on the meter, whereas most folk were S6 - S9.

Over the past months, I have found it better to reduce output power, especially when CQ'ing. In WAEDC and CQWW, I was down to around
50 or 60W out, and in this one, I ran at about 70 watts, apart from calling the VP2 and the PJ2, for which I pushed out the full
100!

Just my thoughts.....................

73 all

Phil GU0SUP





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