[RTTY] Greater than 600 watts for RTTY

[Jamie WW3S]

I avoided an amp for years, for the same reason, I live in a sub-division, 
very close neighbors, when I first moved in, had trouble with the one 
neighbor when on my temporary butternut installation......after nearly 18 
yrs barefoot I recently purchased an SPE 1.3K-FA and reluctantly tried it 
out, low power at first, half expecting the phone to ring, but 
nothing...tried a few different antennas and a few different bands, but 
other than getting into my own sound bar on the TV, no calls,......next 
night tried more antennas and more power, other bands....nothing....soon I 
was running at full power and tried all antennas....nothing....been 5 weeks 
now and no one has said anything.....and you are right, power is no 
substitute for skill, made honor roll with 100w from a small 
lot.......BUT.....I gotta tell you.....skill AND a AMP make you deadly!!!!! 
worked a lot of new ones on 160 and 80 recently, including all the African 
dxpeditions.....
-----Original Message----- 
From: Thom
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 1:11 PM
To: rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Greater than 600 watts for RTTY

I have been thinking a lot about buying some form of amp for my shack to
do 400-600 watts on RTTY.  Then looking out my shack window I am
reminded that I have a lot of really close neighbors and I do not want
to put them at risk with even more RF exposure. I also have a really
small lot.

I am real lucky that the powers that be in this mobile home park I
reside in even lets me have radio,  of any kind.

So 100 watts and better antennas are my options.

I just hope that I make it physically to the next sunspot peak. I did
really well with 100  watts during the last one.

QRP  operators have a motto that I have lived by for years. "Power is no
substitute for skill."

73

Thom KI8W





On 3/25/2017 12:51, Neal Campbell wrote:
> At the top of the pecking order is operator skill.
>
>
> Neal Campbell
> Abroham Neal LLC
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 12:37 PM, Ed Muns <ed at w0yk.com> wrote:
>
>> The key factor missing from the top portion of this "pecking order" is 
>> QTH,
>> both macro (Lat/Lon) and micro (hilltop or valley; saltwater, etc.).
>>
>> Ed W0YK
>> ____________________________________________________________________
>>
>> Dave K2YG wrote:
>>
>> If you're out to win a contest in the high power category, or to get
>> rare ones on the first or second call, go for the max.  But here 400
>> watts or less has gotten 344 DXCC entities on RTTY, 5 watts has 268 and
>> 1 watt 146 countries.  Pecking order is propagation, then antenna and
>> power.
>>
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