[RTTY] North American QSO Party, RTTY

[john]

Tom, they went through all of this last year on the rtty reflector--some 
one contacted the powers to be and they said that "would check in to it"--
heard nothing  since...until after the test and the same thread will 
kick in again
IMO , a dumb rule-- if you are not going to submit any logs to them,,,, 
Id run it at 100 wts wid amp--   I run my 590 at 55 wts or so in rtty 
tests   this mostly in s&p
gl 73 john
On 7/13/2015 4:26 PM, Tom Osborne wrote:
> There had been some talk in the past about allowing the use of 
> amplifiers in the NAQP RTTY test since lots of radios can't run 100 
> watts key down for long periods of time.
>
> I know my TS-450's won't run 100 watts continuously on RTTY so I have 
> the choice of running higher power and take a chance of frying the 
> radio or doing what the manual says and run 40 - 45 watts.  Yeah I 
> know - buy new radios.  Not gonna happen :-)
>
> With all the 200 and 400 watt radios out there, this rule seems moot.  
> Is someone with a 200 or 400 watt radio less likely to cheat than 
> someone with an amp set to 100 watts?  Just curious about the 
> rationale for the rule.  73
> Tom W7WHY
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