The 10 watt guy might work him well before the 1500w guys. Propagation might be favoring the 10 watt guy, he might have better antennas, he know where in a pileup to call or when to call in a simplex pileup etc.
I worked the VU4 and S21 dxpeditions with an Acom 1000 running about 600 watts in my house shack. I never felt the need to run out to the radio shack and crank up the Alpha 99. My desire for the KPA500 is a lighter DX/Contest-pedition worthy amp and a nice matching amp that takes up far less room than the Acom in my home shack and I wanted to have 6m. There is nothing on the market that comes close. I had a very bad experience with THP and will never buy anything from them. Power is no guarantee to working anyone. On 6/22/2011 6:06 AM, Tommy Alderman wrote > Sorry Jack, in my opinion your comment is quite irrelevant to the point that > Brian made. It is pretty obvious that if you cannot hear the VK, then no > amount of power is going to make you successful, be it 10 watts or 1500 > watts. You are correct in that with great band conditions, you will be able > to work the DX with 10 watts BUT you will have to wait until all of the > folks who are running 1500 watts have finished, then you will have to wait > until the folks running 500 watts have finished. The following of the KPA500 > is very similar to what used to happen on the Ten Tec reflector, no matter > what Ten Tec did, the 'Ten Tec cult' worshipers would just gush over it; now > it is Elecraft's time! > > It is pretty simple to understand that a 500 watt signal is not going to be > heard over a 1500 watt signal, given identical circumstances. > > 73, > Tom - W4BQF > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jack Chomley > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:44 AM > To: Brian Alsop > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KPA-500 vs others > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:27 PM, Brian Alsop<[email protected]> wrote: > > SNIP>> >> For me, it is pretty convincing (I'm a primarily a DXer) that 1500 watts >> suits my operating needs, 500 watts does not. For example two maps run >> this morning on 40M shows zero probability of making a contact with VK, >> however with 1500 watts it the probability becomes reasonable. >> >> One factor VOACAP can't consider is competition. I think it is a given >> that more 5db power will suit you better in a pileup. If you're an old >> goat and your biological clock it ticking, working what you can hear >> quickly makes sense. >> >> However, everyone's circumstances are different. But at least one ought >> to try to evaluate them with available tools rather than just relying on >> word of mouth. >> >> 73 de Brian/K3KO >> > That might be fine, you use 1500 watts to get to VK.Trouble is, VK has a > limit of 400 watts, and a very large percentage of VK operators only run 100 > watts :-) > So, do you have a great RX to make up the difference? > To each his own, but I have heaps of success with 10 watts :-) > Generally, IF the propagation is there, I have a fair chance of making > contacts, provided I am not hearing just 1500 watt stations, everywhere :-) > I am not after quantity of contacts, just quality contacts! > > 73, > > Jack VK4JRC > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
