[Elecraft] April 1st belated

[Phil Hystad]

Dick,

That must also be a world-record for the longest QSO ever.  Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light-years distant from Earth so a round trip would be approximately 8.74 years just to establish a firm contact.  Technically, if you guys exchanged the typical signal report, name, qth, and other information you should still be working on waiting for his name.  Then, you could have done that in your CQ call itself and saved some time.

73, phil, K7PEH


> On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Richard Jubinville <silver60 at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> How did I ever forget this ??  I was able to run my OCF Dipole under the High Voltage power lines behind my house, which run from Niagara Falls station to Millbury, Massachusetts. The RF coupled to the 6 power lines and now I have the longest Dipole antenna in the world according to Guinness Book of Records!! I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! And this is a DX record .
> 
> 73 / Dick
> 
> W1REJ
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