[UK-CONTEST] QRO

[Darren GØTSM]

Hello Gang,
I guess our licence is slightly different to a lot of our Eu 
neighbours whereas our Full licensee's power is 400W supplied to the 
antenna as opposed to power output.
I'm in favour of 1KW output for all Full licensees but I would also 
like to see a change in the 'intermediate' licence, 3dB won't make a 
lot of difference but it would tidy things up.

Novice 10W output.
Intermediate 100W output.
Full 1KW output. (except for 137KHz, 0dbw erp must be there for a reason)

If you want rural or urban power limits would this involve a visit 
from someone or a peek on Google earth?, if it involved someone 
coming out and checking how 'rural' you are then it would cost ofcom 
money and they wouldn't like that. The easier it would be to change 
the licence the more chance there is of succeeding. Also what other 
amateur radio 'self training' activities would benefit from an even 
bigger power increase, EME & 160/80M experiments (DXing) might be 
better off with a 1.75dB increase on top of the KW.

The only advantage I could see to running even higher power, maybe 
2-3KW would be where a big contest station could run with one antenna 
to NA and another antenna to AS. There would be enough power split 
between the two antennas to keep the run freq and generate a lot of 
backscatter, you couldn't do this too well with 200W to each antenna. 
In this situation the location would definitely be rural.

Darren


At 17:56 30/04/2006, Chris wrote:

>Hopefully HFCC and RSGB will now make representations for 'power parity'
>with other Eu countries - I don't see how OFCOM can fail to listen to
>reasoned arguments (for and against increasing the present limit) backed up
>by evidence such as your list.  I emphasise that any increased power limit
>would be only for certain contests and only for Special Contest Callsigns -
>and/or other sensible restrictions.
>
>Without prejudging anything, if the RSGB were to 'sit on the fence' too
>long, it would seem reasonable to me that contest groups or individuals
>might wish to approach OFCOM directly. I recall clearly the unacceptable
>5-year delay prior to the issuing of the first Special Contest Callsigns.
>
>73
>Chris
>GM3WOJ
>
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