[Elecraft] Dreaming...a challenge for the Elecraft team (fwd)

[Vic Rosenthal]

"Julian (G4ILO)" wrote:
> 
> I think the point that Eddi was making was that until now, if you said you
> were running a K2, people would know you were using a QRP rig. Now, they
> don't.
> I think there are many of us who choose to operate low power, all the time,
> not just as a fun thing when conditions are good, to whom this distinction
> is important. When, a few months ago, I downsized to just one radio, I sold
> my IC-756PRO because I felt that no-one would understand why I would have
> such a radio and yet run it at only 5 or 10 watts. 

I wasn't going to join in this discussion, because it is off-topic and can
become inflammatory.  But I need to make two points (not necessarily directed at
Julian, just the issue):

1) Who cares how much power people think you're running?  If you want to cheat,
you can buy an Alpha and claim it's an SST.  Who will be the loser, you or the
guy who believes you?

2) Although it may be a worthwhile challenge for some to operate only QRP, it
isn't morally better to do so.  Legal and gentlemanly (or -womanly) operation is
of course a matter of ethics, but radio asceticism is private matter and not
something akin to environmentalism. 

Vic K2VCO