[Elecraft] Considering a KPA-500 - WAY off topic!

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Not just the reflector rules. The FCC's:

§97.313   Transmitter power standards.
(a) An amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary to carry out the desired communications.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Chester Alderman <aldermant at windstream.net>
To: 'Elecraft Reflector' <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, Apr 24, 2015 9:21 am
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Considering a KPA-500 - WAY off topic!


With apologizes to Wayne and Eric and with full understanding of this
reflector
rules, I am disgusted enough with Guy's below post that I HAVE
to
respond.

Even if Guy's below post is 'tongue in cheek' it sure highlights
Guy's lack
of thinking by posting it. 

I have been a CW operator for a
little over 62 years and I have never run
QRP simply because I don't want
to...my prerogative as an amateur. To me, a
QRP operator ignorantly think it is
'cool' to brag about the contacts they
make, not realizing it is not their
station capability that is making a QSO
but rather the person on the other end,
who has the intelligence and station
capability to dig the QRP signal out of
the QRN and ORM that really makes
the contact. 

Notwithstanding the above,
Guy has found the intestinal fortitude to label
me as a 'hopeless LID at 1500
watts' just because in MY HOBBY I prefer to
have my K3 drive my Alpha 9500 to
its full 1500 watt output into my 16
element yagi at 80', IF I SO CHOOSE!
Heaven only knows why Guy would want to
post something that labels his own
intelligence! NONE of us has the right to
categorize others only because their
participation in our hobby is different
from their own.  

73,
Tom -
W4BQF


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Well,
there's 27 dB between the ears, so it's capable of making 100 w
extremely
pesky, 5 watts actually work, and in the hands of a total LID,
render 1500
watts at a fine station useless. Have seen all of the above and
everything in
between, the 27 dB is fairly accurate.

How come accurate? Because a fine QRP
op actually CAN beat out a hopeless
LID at 1500 watts with equivalent antennas.
That's 25 dB. Need to add a
couple extra dB to 25 because you don't know how
far down in the hole a
hopeless LID really is. LID probably needs a couple
extra dB to be able to
work anyone at all and get back up to zero.  27 dB
between the ears.

As to Fred's skills? Come on. At worst he's mid-range for
NCCC, and that for
sure is nothing to dismiss. He's just trying to sneak in a
little
rope-a-dope for the next contest, get you off your guard, beat you in
the
pile when you're not expecting it.

73,
Guy.
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