[Elecraft] DX on 15 watts

[John Harper]

>Agree.  They also don't report how the guy they worked had to struggle 
>to pull them out or what his equipment was.

Brain, I beleive you're speaking from the wrong orifice:

A DX station working a pile-up isn't trying to "pull out the QRPer" - he's just trying to work those he hears. The fact that he hears (and then works) the QRPer is a simply function of his having heard the QRPer rather than the others calling him. This is because the QRPer called where the DX is listening at a time when the others didn't. By virtue of calling off-freq (outside the passband), the QRO ops make themselves "virtual QRPpers" who are too weak to be heard.

Technique and skill of the QRPer are at work here - a fact that is worth dB on the rx end every bit as real as that gained from an antenna or an amp.


John AE5X
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