The shirt I wear sometimes in the hamfests says up front : Life is too short
for QRP
I run every night not less than 500W on 40M,only way to brake the pileups and
fight againts the big guns.When every single one on the bands drop their
power to 100W or less,I drop mine,that is not going to
The shirt I wear sometimes in the hamfests says up front : Life is
too short for QRP
In stark contrast, the first rig I built, when I was 13, was a 200-
milliwatt-output crystal oscillator that used half a dozen parts with
their leads twisted together. No PCB, no solder, no box. It was
I know the feeling! I was fooling around sending into a cantenna with
my HW 100. This was in the early 1970's, and I thought that a
resistor inside a grounded metal can would not let any signal out! It
was a major surprise, to say the least, when someone came back to me.
Only about a
The 1st non Heathkit rig I ever built (1st was a 90W CW transmitter I built
from scratch when first licensed back in 1963) was a little 2 transistor MOPA
rig (2N706 VFO driving a 2N2219 PA) which put out about 750 mw. Receiver was a
Collins R-390A on loan from the Army MARS program and I was
Yes and yes.
N7WS
--- On Tue, 1/25/11, Hector Padron ad4c2...@yahoo.com wrote:
The shirt I wear sometimes in the
hamfests says up front : Life is too short for QRP
I run every night not less than 500W on 40M,only way to
brake the pileups and fight againts the big guns.When
every
Yeah,yeah,yeah, I know all about qrp,I started in hamradio when I was 13 years
old,I am 62 now,you figure how long ago,my first QRP was a 6V6 tube oscilating
with a xtal on 7005 and that thing made barely 2W and with a dipole I worked in
less than a year more than 100 countries in CW from my CO
the courtesy of those old times its gone forever
That's like saying CW is dead.
Etiquette may have changed, but like Elecraft has proven: If you innovate
and do what you believe in, you can beat the fray instead of joining it.
QRO, QRP, each has its place.
73,
--Andrew, NV1B
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[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hector Padron
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 3:37 PM
To: Wayne Burdick
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] just 500W ?
Yeah,yeah,yeah, I know all about qrp,I started in hamradio when I was 13
years old,I am 62
500W is more than many of us in other parts of the world are allowed to use.
Life is not too short for QRP and it certainly isn't too short for 100W,
never mind 500. If that wasn't the case we'd have all given up long ago.
Power is like an arms race, people get sucked in to believing they need
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From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Hector Padron
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 3:37 PM
To: Wayne Burdick
Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] just 500W ?
Yeah,yeah,yeah, I know all about qrp,I started
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