[UK-CONTEST] Contest output powers in CQWW 160

[Roger Western]

Stewart, that confirms my earlier post on this subject: CQWW rule is being 
(has been?) changed to clarify that it is output power measured at the 
TX/amplifier, not at the antenna. This covers CQWW CW and CQWW SSB - all 
other CQ contests are managed by different folks with their own rules, so I 
don't know about them, sorry.

This CQWW rule change comes about, I seem to remember, because measuring at 
the antenna is not in the U.S. license: we discovered only UK and a couple 
of East European countries that use it, so the big majority of national 
licences say measure at the TX.
73 de Roger/G3SXW.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Stewart Rolfe
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:05 PM
To: UK-Contest
Subject: [UK-CONTEST] Contest output powers in CQWW 160

In last November's CQWW CW contest I was using a vertical on 40m about 100m 
from the shack. I emailed Bob Cox K3EST (Contest Director) to check that I 
could run more than 100watts (low power section) to allow for feeder losses 
as the rules weren't that clear (unlike RSGB).

He confirmed that the power levels referred to power from the TX and *not* 
at the antenna, and apologised for the ambiguity.

Does anyone know for sure CQWW160 rules are different to CQWW DX?

73,

Stewart, GW0ETF
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