[Elecraft] April 1st belated

[Edward R Cole]

Actually Dick has not completed his QSO with me since he has not 
confirmed my signal report:
RST = 0.000000000001, 5, 9
His 1kw CW signal with 20-dB gain to my planetary antenna with 35-dB 
gain on 20m resulted in SNR of -205.4 dB; I'm still integrating it to 
bring it out of the noise.  Path loss of 464.7 dB results from the 
over the 4.96 E12 km path.  Next time fire up your fusion-reaction 
thermo-nuclear amplifier: KPA-1BVA.

What you doubt that I am on the third planet orbiting Alpha 
centauri?  Well tell that to the USPS as everyone believes Alaska is 
on another planet (maybe even another solar system)!

73, Ed - KL7UW
nano nano earthlings

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From: Phil Hystad <phystad at mac.com>
To: Richard Jubinville <silver60 at charter.net>
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] April 1st belated
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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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