[Elecraft] OT: Contesting / DXing practices

[Jim Allen]

I think he is talking about the jerks who run max smoke to talk to each
other when only a few hundred miles apart.

I've heard this behavior on 40M fairly often:

Goober asks Billy Joe Bob if he can copy him.  BJB says "sure, solid copy!
You are only 35 over 9, down from your usual 40 over."  G says, "I thought
so.  Something must be wrong with my antenna,  The SWR here this morning is
1.35; usually it is 1.15 and I was worried about blowing up my lineaaar or
something.  I still copy you fine, though, 40 over like usual."  These two
have talked nearly every morning for 20 years, could copy each other just
fine on 50 watts or less but run full bore, and proud of it!

or similar.

73 de W6OGC  Jim Allen

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Wes (N7WS) <wes at triconet.org> wrote:

> Are you suggesting that contest/DX ops should adjust their power for each
> contact?
>
> I'm about 50 miles from you, I hope you're not accusing me of being a jerk
> for running 500 W to a 40' high dipole to work DX; for example, 9K2 on
> 40-meters at my morning grey line or IT9 an hour before sunset a couple of
> weeks ago.  I suppose on a dead-quiet band with no QRM I could do it with
> much lower power, but those were not the conditions I had to work with.
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
> Jeffrey wrote:
>
> The band plans work better when operators actually abide by "using only
> the power required to make contact." In fact, the band plans might much
> less important if operators would bother to follow the "power rule."
> Friends and I, who do happen to live fairly close, can (and do) actually
> talk using .1-.2W (yes, those are decimal points) on 40m, NVIS. It is
> really irritating to get stomped on by some jerk(s) running several hundred
> watts to talk when they're less than 200 miles away, as happens here in
> southern AZ. Jeff - kg7hdz
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