A Hodgepodge of QRP Updates
A slew of items to discuss this month including reader input from February’s “Please Copy” QRP debate, one reader’s thoughts on the ethics of power output, a new logging program that gets it done for Parks on the Air activations, and an update on the return of the Four State QRP Group’s Bayou Jumper QRP radio kit. A lot to say with little space, so onward we go!
“Please Copy” – Readers’ Views
In the February column, I explained how I was denied a contact by a station in California during ARRL’s SSB November Sweepstakes for saying “Please Copy” at the beginning of my exchange. For those who may not recall or missed the February column, I was on 80 meters around 0730 UTC when I tuned into a small pileup working a station in San Joaquin Valley (SJV), a needed multiplier and one of two remaining sections I needed to work all of 6-land. After tossing my call-sign into the pileup the SJV station responded back to me with his exchange. I replied with my information and began my exchange with “Please Copy…” The SJV station responded back to me saying “I don’t work hams who say ‘Please Copy,’” then called QRZ and moved on to the next station giving him the serial number (contact number)
