From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Stephany.WBST@PARC-MAXC@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Title: Re: How to Solve Crowding on HF
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.4500
Posted: Tue Nov 30 09:55:46 1982
Received: Wed Dec  1 00:54:50 1982

I think it makes sense to cut power to 250 Watts:

1)  On 20 meters and above it doesnt help you

2) on 80 and 40 it is used to blast out the other stations. 

If you cut power, they would still be blasting each other but at a lower level.

Remember the DB loss is only  20 log(1000/250) =  10 db or about 2 "S" units.