Sending /QRP does not seem to be a problem for casual operation. But DO NOT use /QRP in contests or DX pileups.
>From long experience in contests trying to copy weak stations from a big multi, sending /QRP in contests or DX pileups can be THE reason why you do NOT make a contact. When a station is struggling to get your call out of the noise (quite common given your power level), ANY characters other than the bare call sign are a confusion. I long ago lost count of the number of times that trying to work a station sending /QRP, all I copied for sure was the /QRP. With QSB on signals and maybe only a second or two of peak signal on the up part of QSB barely clearing the noise, the /QRP wastes the possible peak signal time for half the call sign. Remember that when you are QRP in a contest, you are depending on the OTHER station to complete the contact. The completed QSO is hardly credit to you at all, it's a credit to his receiving skills and RX setup. He already knows you are weak, so you don't have to tell him you are weak with /QRP. He doesn't care WHY you are weak, he just wants to work you. Do everything you can to assist him. In the later stages of a contest, when you are more likely to have clear shots at running stations, high scoring stations have already worked all the low hanging fruit, the loud and medium stations, and will gladly work any QRP entrant, it's a contest after all. If he can manage to get your call out of the noise and the competition cannot, that improves his chances of beating his competition. However if he continues to try and copy you without results for any extended period, then your sending period will sound like a vacant frequency to others and the station trying to get your call risks losing his run frequency. DO NOT use /QRP in contests or DX pileups. I am not against QRP. I enjoy my battery K2/10, and have done 160 contests QRP, LP and QRO. In QRP, crisp, sharp operating is magnified in a contest, to everyone's benefit. 73, Guy K2AV On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Rick Dettinger <k7m...@gmail.com> wrote: > No need to do so, but I have used /QRP to try to snag another QRP operator > around on of the the QRP "watering holes". > Two way QRP QSO's have been some of my nicest ham radio experiences. > We generally spend quite a bit of time discussing our equipment, that we > probably built, and in some cases, designed. > > 73, > Rick Dettinger K7MW > > > On Jan 4, 2015, at 12:47 PM, Jim Allen wrote: > > > I've never seen the need to sign /QRP or give it away in any fashion. If > > the other guy hears you adequately, he will respond; otherwise, what > > difference does it make? > > > > It is the flip side of the Old Timer's oft repeated advice: "When you > hear > > 'em, call 'em!" > > > > 73 de W6OGC Jim Allen > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to k2av....@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
