I can understand the advantage of even 1 db to a serious contester over the period of a lengthy contest but for my needs, and keeping in mind maximizing battery power, the 10w of the KX3, and even 5w, is fine. I have other rigs that are capable of 100w in the shack, but now that I'm retired I plan to do a lot of portable work, especially since summer is on the way in the northern hemisphere. Fortunately, here in soCal it's nice enough to do portable operations most of the year, without the need for much more than a jacket in winter.
I guess that getting older tends to mellow one out. In the past I was an extremely serious contester, especially for Field Day, but now I'll be content to improve on last year's score in a given contest. Sure, in a stocked pond you're pretty much guaranteed to catch fish, but where's the fun in that? Being DX in VK-land gives you a bit of an advantage. I'd say that 400w is more than enough power, but I'm sure that there are those of us here in the US who would use more power than 1500w it it were allowed. 72/73 de Jim - AD6CW On 6/7/2011 8:40 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > The 10W output of the KX3 can be increased to 100W via the amplifier for > mobile and portable operation. To increase the output from 10 to say 30W > will greatly restrict the battery life and I don't see any real advantage. > > Either the KX3 is a QRP radio or not....adding another 10-20W available on > battery power makes it less attractive to me. > > In VK we seem to be able to work the world on 400W and yet there are those > in VK who want a change to 1Kw....will it allow us to work more > stations?.....maybe...maybe not. Perhaps we are just too lazy to make a few > extra calls and think it is good to be told we are 20db over S9 instead of > 5/9 plus.... > > I have worked a lot of stations running QRP and a dipole antenna and the > last was from NY to VK using 5W, I went QRP also and we worked for 10 > minutes or so. It was fun for me to work him also. > > My 2 cents worth...keep the change! > > 73's > Gary > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
