[Elecraft] [KX3] QSO of the week (and a re-learned QRP SSB tip)

[Fred Jensen]

/QRP often, but not always, indicates a field operation, and they're 
sort of fun to work, at least for me. Having survived trying to move to 
AM in the mid 50's as a teenager and finding out the OT's did not like 
the invasion they said we were creating ["End of Ham Radio As We Know 
It"], I retreated to CW with a huge lesson in tolerance.  A FD CW op did 
send "Please copy," the Q was a struggle for him/ her, I asked for the 
name and I think I got Pat.  I went really slow, he/she said "QSL," I 
hope they enjoyed it.  I was QRP with my K2 and HOA-Stealth WOOF antenna 
[Wire On Organic Fence] since my K3 is in the shop. Learning is a slow, 
continuous process.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 7/1/2018 6:44 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 7/1/2018 6:29 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>> I have found that signing "QRP" is more effective on SSB than it is 
>> on CW.  But it depends on the attitude of the listener at the other 
>> end. Some are encouraged by QRP, but others are turned off by it. 
>
> I find it a "lidism," the equivalent of "please copy." I run QRP a 
> lot, both during contests and chasing DX, but I will never respond to 
> a station adding /QRP to his/her call.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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