Topband: re topband QRP

[Jim Brown]

On Sat,12/26/2015 9:39 AM, mstangelo at comcast.net wrote:

> It sometimes leads to a discussion about our setups.

Bad operating practice in most contests.

> If you cannot intrepret the information sent because of a weak signal QRM or QRN you have not made a valid contact.

A valid contact is the exchange of callsigns and one additional piece of 
information, followed by acknowledgement by both stations. When running 
QRP at the limits of propagation, that exchange can take a while.

Good operating practice in most contests is to transmit ONLY the 
required information. Anything beyond that, especially when conditions 
are marginal, is poor contest operating practice.

73, Jim K9YC