I am with you Jim. Field Day rules should change to allow a CW
station to operate QRP and get the added score for being QRP, with
another station working SSB at 1500 watts who get the usual 1 point,
per contact.
Not sure who to write and ask for the change. But this last FD QRP
SSB was just not practical.
73 Karl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 7/7/06 3:16:19 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
While the Battery subclass is limited to 5W, the Alternative Power Bonus
is not. We were running 100W on Battery for one of our stations using
Solar Panels as the power source.
I also agree that the Battery subclass should allow more power. There
would still be the QRP power multiplier to account for the power level.
My club might be willing to go to all battery, but would not be willing to
give up 13db.
I think there are a couple different issues here.
First off, the power levels aren't equally spaced. 5 W to 150 W is almost 15
dB, but 150 W to 1500 W is only 10 dB.
Second, a multitransmitter setup has to use the power of the highest-power
station in the setup. IOW, if it's not all QRP, it's not QRP at all. It didn't
used to be that way - until 1971, a multitransmitter setup could have multiple
power categories and multipliers. I think we should go back to the way it was
before 1971.
73 de Jim, N2EY
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