[RTTY] North American QSO Party, RTTY

[Jeff Stai]

In an era where 10W radios using external amps to get to 100W is much more
common than even a few years ago, I think removing the rule makes sense. I
suggest a petition of some sort, a polite letter from many hams. 73 jeff
wk6i

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 9:40 AM, john <w8wej at citynet.net> wrote:

> 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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