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

[David Gilbert]

It works the other way as well.  There are often other weak signals in 
the pileup, either due to marginal antennas or poor propagation or being 
off the side of the pileup operator's beam.   An op signing "/QRP" makes 
it sound like he thinks he should get special treatment when in fact 
there are perfectly valid reasons why other signals might be as weak as 
his.  It has always seemed boorish to me.

I'm admittedly primarily a contester, but in my experience signing 
"/QRP" has always been considered bad practice and I've heard pileup 
operators tell callers to quit doing it or go away.  I do the same when 
running.

Dave   AB7E


>
> 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."
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> If you want special attention because you are portable why not 
>> indicate portable rather than QRP?
>>
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Andy k3wyc