[Elecraft] Bad start to FD - smoked a K3!!!!

[Radio Amateur N5GE]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:31:51 -0700 (PDT), Wes Stewart <n7ws at yahoo.com>
wrote:

It ain't against the rules, but it sure is stupid, with all the other
RX's within a 500? foot radius, who could copy anything while that LID
is transmitting?  It's a wonder he didn't fry some other RX's (or
maybe he did).

Tom Childers, N5GE
Licensed since 1976
QCWA Life Member 35102

n5ge at n5ge.com
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>Funny, the rules say:
>
>7.2.4. If any or all contacts are made using an output power greater than 150 Watts, the power multiplier is 1 (one).
>
>That suggests that 1KW is perfectly legal.  Think of it as a transmission line loss compensator.
>
>--- On Sat, 6/26/10, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>

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>>We had one guy get on 75 with a KW 
>
>A KW on Field Day? What's this world coming to? FD is a low power event. High 
>power is like a you know what in the punchbowl. 
>
>73, Jim K9YC

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