[UK-CONTEST] QRO

[Peter Bowyer]

Ray Hills <g3hrh at btinternet.com> wrote:
> What is the argument for using powers above the present limits?  Keep
> up with the Jones's?  I believe that the only argument is in the
> cause of genuine need for bona fide scientific experiments into
> propagation.  Special pleading for contests just doesn't figure.  But
> I don't suppose for one minute that any of the usual correspondents
> will agree.  If 1 kW becomes the norm someone will provide a 2 kW amp
> .... and so on.  Is that really the way that we want AR to flourish?
> Who has the deepest pocket?

As long as the folks who don't want to play the escalation game have their 
own sections to compete in, why not?

You could just as well ban antennas over 60 feet tall, CW faster than 20wpm, 
or some other arbitrary limit on experimentation.

Peter G4MJS