QRZ.COM need a QRP forum!

Staying positive

As long as we can keep it positive and not a QRO bashing forum. This idea of a QRP forum has great merit, a place to exchange information, post events and schedule ideas.
73/72 KC4URI

 

Count me in !

It's a great idea

73 John

 

There is a QRP forum here

 

do not feel guilty

use to be the ARCI certificate said QRP 100 Watts or less
QRPp was five watts or less
then sometime in the late 70's or 80's all of a sudden QRP
it was five watts or less

lots glow bug low power ops all of a sudden
were now QRO
got so i stopped paying dues to any of the QRP clubs

funny how somebody using a store bought K-3 at five watts CW on twenty meters
to a store bought six el wide spaced Yagi on a commercially erected one hundred foot tower
is QRP

but another op running a HB rock bound ten watt glow bug
and dipole on eighty meters all of a sudden was no longer QRP

mac
dit dit

 

I run QRP 100% of the time I have 4 Icom 703s ,1 817 nd radios I have made over 4500 contacts this year mobile... Qrp is King 73s old men..

 

Join us for the Texas State Parks On The Air in April. We had quite a few QRP ops last year and we won the category using 40m phone and an NVIS dipole.

 

if I connect my 1.25 wave kite antenna for 40M to my 817, is that QRP ? (most people can't tell I am using only 5W)

 

QRP is whatever you say it is. I run 10-15w out of my K2 and I call it QRP. I only dial it back to 5w for contests.

 

I'd like to see a QRP forum for threads as well. It sounds like a great idea. That's fantastic.

On a different note, Sadly, the other night replying back to DX in a massive pileup, a station kept repeating QRP and most everyone backed off which is imo very good manners just to let the calling station recognize the QRP. When the user transmitted his call, the DX station asked what power level and antenna configuration. Well, the station said 18 watts rig with a 9500 running legal. Needless to say, there was a lot of tuning up on the freq. over his finishing QSO with responses of " Lid " being the most polite.

 

Pete,
Excellent post and well said my good Sir.

 

I'm glad to read your response. Dave (WN6U) gave me a Christmas present of a K1-4 that he built & hasn't been able to use for years due to antenna restrictions & etc.
I'm able to get about 6 or 7 watts out on 40m & always feel guilty about considering it a "QRP" rig.
Someday I'll run "BIG POWER" like you !!!! lol lol

 

I would like to see a QRP forum as well. I'm fascinated by the possibilities with QRP portable, mobile, etc. There are endless topics of discussion given all the operating and technical challenges with QRP. I would be really interested in a discussion of QRP digital modes, or say operating on FM or AM with less than 5 watts. All kinds of cool stuff to be done!

 

Those of you who are doing QRP most of the time, do you do CW, digital, or phone? Some combination? Most of the QRP'ers that I am familiar with say it's not QRP if it's not CW, but that seems pretty restrictive

 

sure most QRP work is done on CW
but
it's not so much a mode or even the power
it is more like a doing more with less philosophy

nothing does more with less than CW

anybody that tells you running 2.5 watts SSB is not QRP
is full of it

mac
ARCI member since 1975

 

Operating QRP I've done CW, PSK31 and even SSB but PSK31 usually wins out. PSK31 has lots of punch per watt but at the expense of needing much more equipment than CW.

--Sherman