[Elecraft] O.T. Increase inDigital data on 30m

Dave New, N8SBE n8sbe at densbe.com
Sun Feb 25 13:14:48 EST 2024


Yes, Jim, you are correct.  My mistake.  I've participated in enough NA 
QSO Parties, both CW and SSB, I should have remembered they are 100W 
parties.  One of the reasons I like to participate in them is because 
the power limitation helps level the playing field for us 'little 
pistols'.

73,

-- Dave, N8SBE

On 2024-02-24 21:27, Jim Brown wrote:
> Thanks for the explanation, Dave. One small correction -- today's RTTY 
> contest the North American QSO Party, is intended as a 100W contest, 
> and features team competition with a limit of 100W. There are people 
> who enter at high power, but they are a very small minority. If I'm not 
> mistaken, those running high power are considered check logs.
> 
> 73, Jim K9YC
> 
> On 2/24/2024 5:23 PM, Dave New, N8SBE wrote:
>> It's not easy finding open frequencies for an exercise of this sort, 
>> especially because today was the NA RTTY QSO Party (which doesn't take 
>> place on 30M because it is a contest) that completely wiped out the 
>> digital portions of the bands that we normally use for Winlink 
>> messaging.  So it was difficult to work around the KW RTTY stations, 
>> to say the least.
> 
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