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

[Fred Jensen]

Yes, one never knows for sure until one makes contact and asks.  If 
precision matters, K3WYC/QRP/SIXEL/75FT is compliant with 47CFR97 and 
would cover all those bases. [:-)

73,

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

On 7/2/2018 11:19 AM, ANDY DURBIN wrote:
> "/QRP often, but not always, indicates a field operation, and they're sort of fun to work, at least for me."
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> And sometimes it means someone running 5 W to a 6 ele Yagi at 75 ft! That station has far higher ERP that I do running 100 W with my modest antennas.
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> If I was portable in UK, where had my first licence, my call was g3wyc/p. US operators have completely butchered and obfuscated the meaning of portable by verbalizing k3wyc/7 as "k3wyc portable 7". The /7 suffix does not mean I am portable. It just means I'm operating in region 7 and I'm saying so because it is required for the contest in which I'm operating.
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> If you want special attention because you are portable why not indicate portable rather than QRP?
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> 73,
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> Andy k3wyc
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