[Elecraft] Alligators and Bats

[Jim Campbell]

Ron D' Eau Claire wrote:
> 
> But I am always aware that when I work a QRO station while I am running a
> barefoot K2, I have just 'volunteered' him to make a QRP contact whether he
> wanted to or not. I try to stay aware of the changing band conditions,
> realizing that if the band isn't in the very best shape he is likely working
> much harder to copy me than I am him, and the reason for that is because of
> my choice to limit myself to low power.

Thanks, Ron, that explains something that I have experienced from time
to time in the last few months that I have been back on the air.  As
soon as I would tell the other station I was QRP, they wouldn't come 
back to me.  I couldn't understand why.  Now I do.  As a result, I
usually don't share that I am QRP until near the end of the QSO. 

I suppose that if I identified myself as a QRP station when I answered
his call (i.e., de W4BQP/QRP) it would give him a choice, but then I
would have fewer QSOs than I now do. Maybe I will try it and see what
happens.

Jim
W4BQP