Good for you Mike.....a well stated posting.....Yep! Running Qrp with a decent beam can break pile-ups often with ease. Put your money well saved into more antennas with higher gains....You've already proven to yourself that you don't really need an amplifier if your antenna is efficient and has good gain.
Enjoy Summer Dxing Mike. Best regards with many 72...73. Don sr. -- WA2TPU/Qrp --
To LA9XSA and everyone viewing... Its simple....keep it simple.....just add QRP to the end of your call....if you want to add any other designation as to portable or whatever....do so on your Qsl card. To me....stating you are Qrp is enough information unless the party at the other end of the QSO wants to know exactly what you're doing. Its like SOTA....once you mention SOTA....most everyone knows you're on the air atop some summit somewhere. Anyway....that's my take on adding more information other than being QRP. Enjoy Summer Dxing. Best regards with many 72...73. Don sr.--WA2TPU/Qrp --
My guess is health issues. A lot of us are not that young anymore. so what do you do, you set up a business like this, make a number of god contributions then you end up in the hospital for a few weeks. I hope and at the same time I don't that this is the case but he should pass the tech on to someone else and be done with it. Too bad it looked like a nice product. But way too many situations exactly like mine. Maybe he doesn't like quebecers. Oh we'll tabernach!
Absolutely. The nice thing about this program is that it is idiot-proof. On Field Day, you get a ton of newbies trying out HF, that came from VHF/UHF repeaters, and have no concept of a logger. This makes it easier on them, and they then get the HF bug.
