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

[Jim Wiley]

Jim -


( rant mode on  <grin> )


What you say is perhaps pertinent to all you flat-landers - but then 
there's those of us who have to run high power just to be heard. 


Or, we could equalize things another way.  We can run 100 watts, but 
then we would insist that  all of you South-48 types  not count any QSO  
from a station closer than 1500 miles from your  FD site.   That's what  
FD means to us, you see.  Other than within Alaska, the closest FD 
stations we can work (Seattle, WA area) are 1500 miles (or more) distant.


If we don't run the amps, our QSO rate is about 1/5 of of what we get at 
higher power.  Part of the problem is that all the flat-landers are 
aimed East or West, not north or south.  And 150 watts to 40 or 80 meter 
dipole that is 30 feet high doesn't make it up this way very well - 
particularly when we have daylight 18 hours of the day  (solar time, 
which means disregarding  civil offsets like daylight saving time,  
means the sun comes up about 2:00 AM and sets about 10:00 PM.)


I have long maintained that FD stations located in areas not part of the 
contiguous 48 states should be allowed to run higher power without 
penalty. There are FD stations from Guam, Hawaii, Puerto Rico (and so 
on)  too.  Hawaii is more like 2500 miles to it's closest FD neighbor.


( rant mode off.  We now return you to to your regularly scheduled 
reflector )


Jim, KL7CC
Anchorage, AK



Jim Brown wrote:
> 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. 
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> 73, Jim K9YC
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