Here is a sample of some of the contacts with 1 watt
SO2O Poland 4344 milesDL6FBL Germany 3833 miles
PJ2T Caribbean 2261 miles
After making these contacts and with only having from time to time to repeat my exchange I then dropped the power to 1/2 watt!!! and to my amazement here are some of the contacts I was able to make.
Here is a sample of some of the contacts with 1/2 watt
EI5DI Ireland 3249 miles
VQ5D Turks and Caicos 1569 miles
TM6M France 3507 miles
G5W England 3594 miles
V48M St Kitts 2071 milesOH8A Finland 3955 miles
DL0MM Germany 4154 miles
For some time now I had wanted to somehow get an outside antenna of some type as I thought I was just "stuck" with indoor attic antennas. But with these contacts with such little power my antenna envy has been put to rest. Also it's time to put some paper on the wall as well, today I sent off my application for 1,000 mile per watt award. The contact I used was DL0MM as it was 4154 miles with but with only 1/2 a watt.
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11 comments:
Hello Mike,
Great results with QRPp. Your indoor antennas are working fine. It is great fun to reduce below the "psychological treshold" of 1 W and breach the 1000 Miles per Watt boundary so often, when meeting DX stations.
Did you already calculate the "Miles per Watt" for each QSO?
Good luck with 1000 Miles per Watt.
73, Bert PA1B
Hello Mike, a very impressive list, well done. 73 Paul
Hello Bert, yes I did calculate the watts per mile I found the tool at ARCI website. It was cool to see how the 1/2 per mile worked out as well.
Good afternoon Paul, thanks very much and as for impressive not to sure about that it was during the ARRL DX CW contest so there sure were lots of listening ears out there.
Hello Mike,
Well done with your 1/2 watts.
73
Congrats on the 1K/W!
A K3 is on my list, but I have a few things I have to do first.
Good morning Clark, when you do get the K3 I'm sure you will find the radio to be well worth the money spent on it.
Hello Mike,
Very impressive....especially from your location and your antenna restrictions!
Good morning J, I too was to say the least very surprised how the antennas preformed.
Hi MIke:
Impressive - Must get my Ft817 back on, it always seems to get good results.
73 Peter
Hello Peter, I have seen many of the FT817's on the air and have considered one for my portable operation...but that is a gift for sometime in the future.
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