[RTTY] Question about NAQP rules

[Bob Burns W9BU]

On 2/26/2015 4:55 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
> And - to really get nitpicky - the KPA100, according to a report I saw,
> runs 105 watts on 80 and 110 watts on 10.  Does that make it illegal?
> Or, do we just say 'if the amp runs just a little over 100 watts, it's
> OK to use'.

Sheesh!

Ever been to a really serious car show? Did ya' notice the judges who 
were looking for the chalk marks on the chassis and engine compartment? 
Bear in mind, we are talking about cars that were built 50 years ago and 
have since been completely disassembled, cleaned down to bare metal, 
repainted, and reassembled. Who's to know what chalk marks were there 
when the car left the factory?

And, then, there are the railfans who turn into rivet counters. These 
are the guys who will bad mouth an HO scale (1:87 scale) locomotive if 
it doesn't show exactly the same number of rivets on the boiler that 
they think the full size locomotive had. Given that every steam 
locomotive was hand built by human beings, the number of rivets used was 
bound to have a little variation.

There are nit-pickers in every hobby.

Bob...