pointyhead wrote:
Carl R. Stevenson wrote:
I really hesitate to even appear to lend any credence to the rant
below by even responding ...

However, at the same time I feel compelled to state that, when I had
the pleasure of operating 4U1ITU from ITU HQ in Geneva (not too long
after the US insituted the "Foundation Class"), I happily worked a
LOT of M3's (perhaps 50% of about 300 contacts worked in about 2
hours on 20m)

Did you ever wonder how /so/ many were ever able to break the pile up
with 10w? Are you beginning to get the drift?

Depending on the location of the rx to the tx, dropping power can sometimes
increase the chances of getting through.

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