[UK-CONTEST] Original QRP contest

[Clive Whelan]

Dave

Two things at work here I think.

1. The power differential can be most significant. Even in this event 
many people just CQ'd in my face. Most were MP ( 20w), some were QRP(5w) 
but none were VLP ( 1w). So that's the first and most obvious facet, but....


2. Some of the MP and QRP stations above were cracking signals, and I 
believe should have heard me if not Q5. A significant percentage of 
these non-responders, repeated their CQs in a matter of milliseconds and 
were clearly not  listening properly. Now it may well be that some of 
these had high noise levels, and knew it was a waste of time to persist, 
but I suspect some at least couldn't be bothered. This is by no means 
exclusive to QRPers of course and I consistently get the same thing when 
running 400w, because after all the ratio of 5000w ( which we know that 
some Eu stations DO run- no calls no pack drill) to 400w is in the order 
of 10dB or more which is almost as much as the ratio of an MP to a VLP 
station this weekend.

Keep on doing it.


73



Clive
GW3NJW

Dave Sergeant wrote:
> Well I was on Clive..... mainly on 80m to grab a few 2010 slots. It is 
> interesting that I was able to easily work quite a lot of the eastern 
> Europeans on QRP while I call QRO chaps on 80m till I am blue in the 
> face and get no response!
>
> I didn't bother with the other contest running this weekend, the EUCW 
> contest on 160m. I have entered that in the past to support GQRP, but 
> got tired of getting the long exchange over with my QRP - '599 Dave 
> GQRP 11029' is quite a mouthful....
>
> 73 Dave G3YMC
>
> On 3 Jan 2010 at 19:28, Clive Whelan wrote:
>
>   
>> Disappointed not to have heard/worked any of you QRP freaks in this one 
>>   :-(  In fact I worked a solitary UK station, being a GM4.
>>
>> The ARRL RU caused some problems around the 40m QRP freq. of 7030, but
>> nothing untoward. 20m around 14060 was surprisingly completely clear of
>> RTTY.
>>
>> Running SO2R I quickly discovered the unfortunate harmonic relationship
>> between the 40 and 20m QRP frequencies, so that CQing around 7030 made
>> S&Ping around 14060 a little tricky, although I could copy the better
>> signals through my second harmonic.
>>
>> I ran about 800mW on 14Mhz and a massive (!) 1w on 7 and 3.5. I just did
>> a couple of hours on Saturday evening and then again on Sunday morning
>> before the football.
>>
>> QSO totals
>>
>> 3.5Mhz   7
>> 7Mhz      22
>> 14Mhz    18
>>
>> Total       47
>>
>> Antennas were a plain vanilla Butternut on HF and a C3SS cranked down to
>> 15ft and fixed due East on 14Mhz. There's nothing like QRP to tell you
>> how your antennas are working, and 80m was really tough with a vertical
>> only about 27ft high. Conversely it went very well indeed on 40m
>>
>> Sadly nothing heard or worked outside Europe and the event seems to be
>> studiously ignored on the other side of the pond, which is a shame,
>> particularly as I know my 800mW gets into e.g VK6, so the USA is local
>> really!
>>
>> I am not myself a real QRP freak, but I have to say that I am puzzled by
>> the inclusion of a 20w category which imo cannot be considered QRP.
>> Personally I believe even 5w is QRO ;-) .
>>
>>
>> Life's just toooooo short for QRO c'mon!
>>
>> 73
>>
>>
>> Clive
>> GW3NJW
>>     
>
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