[Elecraft] The Joy of QRP

[Rick M0LEP]

On Thu 26 Sep Rick Johnson wrote:
> QRP puts the onus on the receiving station.
> No problem transmitting 5W.

If you want to make contacts with a QRP station you need to pay a lot 
more attention to your antenna. You will likely make things a bit easier 
for the other end of the QSO if you push that 5 watts into a good 
antenna than if you push it into something that's more dummy load...

Of course, your QRP station is also a receiving station, and a good 
antenna matters there, too. As we're fond of saying to our licence 
training course pupils; "You can't work them if you can't hear them."

I also use my KX3 as a home rig for SOTA chasing (and other things). 
Sure, it'll run to 12 watts on the home PSU, so not quite QRP, but you 
still need to make those watts count...

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... 73, Rick, M0LEP