The thing about QRP is that the guy on the other end of the QSO from the station receiving the award does the heavy lifting. A more impressive achievement would be to work QRP stations in 100 countries. (A sort of "reverse QRP").
I agree with that. Virtually zero QRP stations I've worked were using exceptional antennas. As a matter of fact they very rarely have fairly good antennas, like 1/4 wave verticals or inverted L's with large ground systems out in the clear.
I remember in the middle of a contest having two or three operators on headphones trying to dig out a guy running something like 200 microwatts to a 20 foot high dipole. It took ten minutes, and should have been worth twice as much as a Mongolian station. He was actually much weaker than JT1CO. :)
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