[RTTY] Greater than 600 watts for RTTY

[Jeff AC0C]

The sorts of problems you have with higher power in the modern era tend to 
be in RF pickup on the cable/internet boxes like ATT Uverse, etc.  The old 
stuff like phones & TV are not primary issues.  The digital modes tend to be 
more resistant to interference but the issue is more binary - meaning up to 
a point, the RF from your shack is not an issue, and then a few dB more and 
the box shows some issue.  Meaning it's entirly possible that you may be 
able to run high power and have no neighbor grumbling at all.  Or you may 
bump the power up by some fractional dB and hit a limit which pushes the 
guys box over to a fault.  Hard to know.

The good news is that if you have some bucks you can buy a box of type 31 
ferrites and in almost every case there is some sufficient application of 
the ferrites to the suffering box that will keep it happy even with your 
full power transmission.  The caveat here is that the closer the neighbor is 
to your antennas, the more ferrites you will need.

73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
alpha-charlie-zero-charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: John Barber
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2017 6:49 PM
To: 'Thom' ; rtty at contesting.com
Subject: Re: [RTTY] Greater than 600 watts for RTTY

Better antennas should always come before more power or a new radio with
more knobs.
John GW4SKA

-----Original Message-----
From: RTTY [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Thom
Sent: 25 March 2017 17:11
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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