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Amateur radio operators in EI allowed up to 1500 watts in contests
Topic Started: Saturday, 20. August 2011, 12:13 (968 Views)
MadMark1
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Amateur radio operators in EI allowed up to 1500 watts in contests.

A few months ago the Irish Radio Transmitters Society announced that, after some two years of negotiations, Irish regulator ComReg had agreed that EI amateur radio licensees would be allowed to run high power in specified contests.

Everything then went quiet for a couple of months, but ComReg has now published a document on their web site implementing the change. Consequently, suitably equipped Irish contesters are now able to run 1500 watts in major HF contests and 1000 watts in VHF/UHF contests.

The list of permitted events is similar to the one in which UK stations may use short contest callsigns, although more contests could be added to the list in due course.

Interestingly, the increased power limit applies to 4m and the whole of the 160m band, but, curiously, not the 10m band

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Saturday, 20. August 2011, 12:13
and 1000 watts in VHF/UHF contests.
Crikey . . . a Kilowatt and Log-periodic aerial on UHF and you'll not need to eat a cold lunch while contesting. Just point the beam at your pastie or pie and key-up for ten seconds. :chef:

It sounds a bit unfair that it is to be limited to Contesting only. Not that high a percentage of Operators are into that side of the hobby, and I'd bet that w hole lot more Operators would love the opportunity of 1500w for DXing.

I can also see this leading to increased licence abuse in the UK (particularly Northern Ireland and Wales) as Contesting operators "turn up the wick" well above our own legal limit to avoid being swamped by their Eire neighbours.
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Supposing you did not do contesting, but did like operating QRO. What would there be to stop you operating on the said weekends at the said maximum power? By that I mean is there anything that says they will have to be registered contesters, or be registered with the said contest organisers to take advantage of the QRO ability?
Because if there is no legal registration required to prove it's only used for what a contester joking calls a QSO & for no other, real QSO, then it's a power level open to all that weekend.

Edited by Listener, Monday, 22. August 2011, 09:16.
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Sweet jesus!

1KW on a 17ele beam on 2m would equate to about 30kw ERP!
Imagine a stack of them!
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So I guess thats an admission that contesting is not about operating skills as they have always tried to say.l
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Monday, 22. August 2011, 09:53
So I guess thats an admission that contesting is not about operating skills as they have always tried to say.l
Heh heh :D . . . I am sure there are some skills involved in contesting, and certainly a high-tolerance to boredom and repetition is a much required attribute, but I do think that 1500w is more the Brute Force approach than the Finesse one.
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Paddy's contraption look's more like something Ming The Merciless would use to kill us all on Earth,was going to buy one out Maplin's the other day but didn't think it would fit on the bus ;)
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The only reason for all this power is to blast through a pileup aka "Cheating" Dont forget the old adage "If you cant hear 'em you cant work 'em"
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interesting also that they have chosen two of the quietest bands to apply the new power level to. seems pointless to me
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