QRP Radio – Everyone's Doin' It!

And not exactly by choice.  Even if they're transmitting the usual 100 Watts, at least for the next 5 years until the Sun pulls out of this latest solar minimum, we're all struggling to make contacts harder than someone running 5 Watts just a few years ago.  Last night I was talking with a relatively new ham who was having these troubles, and so I recommended the book Minimum QRP and two of its chapters, Propagation and Activity and Operating QRP for advice on how to rustle up a few contacts.  Meh, it's better than cursing Fate and selling your gear.  Anyway, it's a pretty good read and at $5 it's cheap on kindle.