Ouch!
Oh No Gil, I was kiddingly reffering to the TWO WATTS of radio frequency power being "excessive 'power", when one Watt would do. :D moooo-ha-ha-ha. QRP Morse is amazingly effective and while there's nothing wrong with 1500 Watts and a huge beam in the air, this is living proof that you can have an effective, small, lite, portable station which would be MUCH easier to keep running in a TEOTWAKI situation, like the rigs that you've built and put on the air. It needn't cost a fortune to have an effective ham radio station. I didn't express my amusement very well - sorry.
:) ;) :D ;D ::)
Sorry, my friend I was trying to make a joke to emphasive the power of QRP in real world communications. However, text only,
without voice or facial expression is so easily misunderstood.
MAN - you're doing well. Sorry for the mis-understanding. Frankly, I'm quite impressed with what you've accomplished, in teaching yourself, passing three exams up to Extra, along with the code and then DOING IT! Many people can't bring themselves to actually get on the air.
//Hint: One reason that I ask questions on the air is to ensure that you must copy & understand to answer. You did that just fine, including a change of frequency. //
73 de RadioRay ..._ ._
Oh No Gil, I was kiddingly reffering to the TWO WATTS of radio frequency power being "excessive 'power", when one Watt would do. :D moooo-ha-ha-ha. QRP Morse is amazingly effective and while there's nothing wrong with 1500 Watts and a huge beam in the air, this is living proof that you can have an effective, small, lite, portable station which would be MUCH easier to keep running in a TEOTWAKI situation, like the rigs that you've built and put on the air. It needn't cost a fortune to have an effective ham radio station. I didn't express my amusement very well - sorry.
:) ;) :D ;D ::)
Sorry, my friend I was trying to make a joke to emphasive the power of QRP in real world communications. However, text only,
without voice or facial expression is so easily misunderstood.
MAN - you're doing well. Sorry for the mis-understanding. Frankly, I'm quite impressed with what you've accomplished, in teaching yourself, passing three exams up to Extra, along with the code and then DOING IT! Many people can't bring themselves to actually get on the air.
//Hint: One reason that I ask questions on the air is to ensure that you must copy & understand to answer. You did that just fine, including a change of frequency. //
73 de RadioRay ..._ ._