[Elecraft] Swains Island

[Jim Brown]

On 9/12/2012 12:33 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> West coast advantage!

On THIS one, yes  -- only 4600 miles for me, all the hops over water.

We west coasters think the same thing when we hear you east coast guys 
talking about how easy it is to work DXCC in a weekend QRP -- less than 
4,000 miles over water to all those countries in EU and AF. For us, EU 
is 5,000 - 6,000 miles, AND OVER THE POLE for us. All those countries 
you pick up in the Caribbean as a short single hop are two hops for us. 
Heck -- I can't even work 100 countries in a contest weekend with 1.5kW 
and a pretty good antenna farm!  I think I might have done it once or 
twice in the six years I've lived here.

73, Jim K9YC