On 25 Apr 2007 at 13:29, Bruce Robertson wrote:
Quoting John Hackett [email protected]:
The returning station, rather than
suggesting QRP, congratulated his partner on an "excellent, strong signal" (which happened to be FM'ing the beacon like crazy.)
Situation 1
I try to use minimal power on VO-52 and FO-29 answering a CQ call with this absolute minimal power and this station never hear me. When i increased to maximum power he call me back with a S3 report!!!
Situation 2
A CW station was driving the sat power crazy i found some RX system are so poor the only one way they can achieve a QSO its in CW with all they can throw at it.
Is it a good idea to send a note to the culprit explaining them what they are doing or is it a futile action? I for one accept this kind of note but where to draw a line? A station with a super RX figure will say that all the stations are using too much power but what about those who should use medium power.
Suggestion!
When you are transmitting tune up and down the band and check what it is hapenning if you see the sat signal going down on each of your transmission it is probably an indication that something is wrong on your side and something have to be corrected.
Its an old problem but i found it is always the same stations who are causing theses problems. Are they seems to be concerned i think not even if we advise them.
Don't get me wrong it is very possible that each of us one day or another can also use too much power but if this happen on a regular basis we should act on it.
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