*I have been reading the QRP posts with interest over the last few days and last night I was enjoying ssb qso's with an EU station followed by another for about an hour.
I guess somebody decided to ruin my day and placed me on the spot collector. As the number of signals seemed to multiply, I remembered the comments about qrp so I started to wind back the KPA-500 and in the end went to standby and wound the K3 slowly down to 9W on ssb. Still the stations continued to call and then I made my biggest mistake of the evening, I told a station I was running 9W and somehow the EU stations multiplied yet again and it wasn't until 11PM local time that the band gave up. This is the first time I have operated as a QRP (well it was only 9W) for an hour and taught me to pay attention more carefully to how I spoke, phonetics and conduct on the air. Was it fun?.....you bet, I felt I had accomplished something other than just working some 200 contacts, I was a little weary at the end, but, I had a smile as big as all outdoors. I have decided to work more qrp in the days ahead and I look forward to the challenge of getting through the EU QRM and calling a few stations. I will resist the temptation to announce I am qrp when calling..:-) Thanks for all the postings on qrp, I never knew what I was missing. 73's Gary * -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile Elecraft Equipment K3 #679, KPA-500 #018 Living the dream!!! ______________________________________________________________ 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
