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

[Ronnie Hull]

It’s always the fault of the U.S. Amateurs

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> On Jul 2, 2018, at 1:19 PM, ANDY DURBIN <a.durbin at msn.com> wrote:
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> "/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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