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G0TEZ > QRP 05.03.02 08:59l 60 Lines 2570 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 363_G0TEZ
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Subj: Re: QRP v QRO
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From: G0TEZ@GB7HVU.#16.GBR.EU
To : QRP@WW
G0TEZ/TPK 1.83c Msg Num:363 Date:04-03-2002 Time:22:38 GMT QTH COLNE NW England.
I've just been reading the bulletin from David,G4EBT, whom I respect
greatly BTW. In it he mentions the large number of QRP contacts
acheieved by certain stations.
It brought back memories of the late 70s - early 80s when people in
the UK were transmitting illegally on the 11m band using, normally,
12W PEP into an aerial cut to be resonant only on 11 metres.
Thousands of people made regular contacts with the USA mainly ion AM.
A friend of mine would come home for lunch and CQ, then chat, usually
with a North American CB operator until his wife brought him his lunch.
For a couple of years I had a regular contact with 'Otto' who was
'Somewhere in Texas. running 12W PEP into a « wave wire dipole from a
Hi Gain 5'. The identical setup to the one I was using when I first
contacted him.
My longest contacts were only two, both in Victoria Au, using a
President Grant, giving 22.5W into my « wave wire dipole.
Naturally, no one ever exchanged QSL cards. Some clubs did start which
had P.O. boxes but it still wasn't very safe and interest died with
the inroduction of the weird FM channels in Nov '81.
The point to all this is quite simple. If you listen and call on the
same, small group of freqencies, with a transmitter and an aerial tuned
to that small band, you are bound to make a lot of DX contacts.
Oddly enough, during that period, a local G3 with 400W and a very big AE
assured me that 10 metres was 'totally dead' and that I had to be lying
about 11m.
Many amateurs in the UK, who started via CB are going to be able to
verify everything I've said but I don't expect tham to risk it,Hi!
The eqivalaent for hams would be for a group to gather around 28 - 28.5
MHz and chat with long pauses. If there were enough, you could divide
that part of the band into 10KHz 'channels' and start a chat on each.
As for 666 LSB, the less said the better:-)
All the best. Count dracula, er, I mean
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