[Elecraft] Your Opinion: The realit..

[wayne burdick]

QSL, Jim, and I can empathize (Belmont, CA is not exactly a hot-bed of 
RF activity either).

But I will lay down the following challenge for you: Next time you hear 
an S9+20 station calling CQ, try turning the K3 down to 1 watt and 
calling him, just for grins. All other things being equal, if he's 
running a KW, you should be about S7 at his QTH.

Cheap thrill, maybe, but a thrill nonetheless. And that's the essence 
of QRP.

Wayne
N6KR

On Mar 5, 2009, at 9:06 AM, JIM DAVIS wrote:

> Wayne,
>
> Our niche in this fabulous hobby of ours is chasing DX (new 
> entities-DXCC) and don't really
> care about QRP per/se as our radio location is marginal at best here 
> in "ant. un-friendly"
> Concord, Ca. so most of the stuff that I work is worked using 100w., 
> but if band conditions
> dictate (including pile-ups!) we'll lite off the Alpha 91b amp to make 
> ourselves heard. Believe
> me though, even sometimes 1KW IS NOT ENOUGH from our marginal area. So 
> QRP is definitely out
> from here locally.
>
> Jim/nn6ee

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