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

[The Smiths]

Sorry, that just sounds like a lot of "spinning" to me.  I worked 4 different KL stations this weekend and NONE of them were using 1KW!  They did just fine on their little dipoles and 100w rigs.   If they can hear me on a wilre, I sure as S**T can hear them.  
 
> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 09:07:55 -0800
> From: jwiley at alaska.net
> To: jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
> CC: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Bad start to FD - smoked a K3!!!!
> 
> 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. 
> >
> > 73, Jim K9YC
> >
> >
> > 
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