[QRP] quiet

[John J. McDonough]

This list has been traditionally quiet. Most of the QRPers are over on
QRP-L.  I show a dozen messages in April, and then none until this little
burst today.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Reynolds" <aa0ni at yahoo.com>


> For example - how minimal is your setup (power, antenna), and how far have
you
> managed to reach with it?

I have a K1 and a 20 meter dipole.  I generally run the K1 at 3 watts, can
pretty much get anyone I want on 20.  The dipole does seem to favor northern
Europe, but it has landed me 5 continents.  A while back I tried one of the
DX contests at 1 watt, then at 0.3 watts ... didn't seem to make a
difference.  Later I tried at 0.1 watt, and that was noticeably more
challenging.

A quick peek through the old logs shows Madagascar, Easter Island, a lot of
Russians at 3 watts, Canaries, Galapagos, Balearic Islands, The Azores, plus
the normal lot of Europeans at half a watt.

My dipole is only up at about 30 feet, and it's nothing more special than 33
feet of wire strung between two trees, with a little homemade balun
(probably not good for much more than 5 watts) at the midpoint, then fed
with coax.

72/73 de WB8RCR    http://www.qsl.net/wb8rcr
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