[Elecraft] MINIMUM POWER NECESSARY

[K9ZTV]

The actual FCC regulation (47 CFR 97.313) reads:

“An amateur station must use the minimum transmitter power necessary to carry out the DESIRED  communications” (my capitalization).

In operating my own station I assign primary importance to the term “desired communication” and secondary importance to the term “minumum necessary.”

Because ...

I may be able to communicate with another station at 5 watts under significant QSB conditions.  But if my desire is to transmit to that same station with 100% accuracy a message containing  life-and-death implications, maximum power necessary is the only appropriate decision, as the wisely-worded FCC clause implies.

73,

Kent  K9ZTV



> On Aug 17, 2018, at 3:24 PM, someone wrote:
> 
> That's why during every QSO I ask my partner, "Can you still hear me?"  If he says, "Yes", I reduce power and ask again.  Eventually, we determine the minimum power necessary.