[Elecraft] who does the work in QRP?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Tom Hall wrote:

> First of all, let me apologize right off the bat to any traumatized QRO
> station that might have been driven to excess drinking or required extra
> therapy as a result of a having a QSO with my QRP station. I envision a
> whole class of ham that was forced into early RF retirement caused by all
> the extra work involved in working low power stations. I only hope that
> their misery is offset by knowing the absolute joy of having worked them
> with low power equipment that I built with my own two hands.

Just to make another point in this possibly pointless debate: all the
antenna systems I've worked on are either kits or homebrew. Nobody will
deliver an assembled tower or beam to your house (unless you live next
door to AN Wireless, I bet, or can put up a nice monopole since you're
richer than I'll ever be.) Towers aren't really kits, since you have to
collect the parts from different vendors.

Oh, and as far as really big amps go, they're almost all homebrew.

All this is unlike a lot of QRP gear, which are KITS, not homebrew. Not
that any of this one-upmanship gets us anywhere. Actually, if I get you
off the computer on the air, that's a positive!

-- 
Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd at twofifty.com
BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte