{"id":1880,"date":"2011-12-12T20:49:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T02:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2013-02-01T14:16:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:16:04","slug":"qrp-dx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=1880","title":{"rendered":"QRP DX"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Today’s run: rest day]<\/p>\n

At the junction of QRP and DX is this kind of thing.<\/p>\n

I received a QSL card in the mail the other day.\u00a0 N2EIK and I had a contact last year: 12\/31\/2010.\u00a0 I have it in my log.\u00a0 I just received his card, then\u00a0 I filled out a postcard and sent it back to him in the SASE he had included.<\/p>\n

The most interesting part of that particular radio conversation was that N2EIK (John) was in Kingston, NY and I was in Columbus, MS.\u00a0 He was running 250 mW output.\u00a0 That is 1\/4 of a watt.<\/p>\n

I was using an old Drake R-4B receiver.\u00a0 For the transmitter I was using an attempt at the “First Transmitter” in the EMRFD book\u00a0 (Experimental Methods in RF Design<\/a>).\u00a0 It puts out about 2 watts.<\/p>\n

Dave included a little note with his QSL card noting that we did 979 miles on 1\/4 of a watt.<\/p>\n

One watt is about what it takes to run one of those little LED nightlights.\u00a0 One fourth of a watt is not very much.\u00a0 I could hear John turning off and on his little nightlight (so to speak) nearly 1000 miles from here.<\/p>\n

For those keeping score at home, my antenna at the time was a G5RV, flat-top at 20 ft oriented N-S.\u00a0 I don’t know what antenna or receiver John was using.<\/p>\n

(Edited:\u00a0 I was repeatedly using the wrong name!\u00a0 I hope I have it right now)<\/p>\n

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[Today’s run: rest day] At the junction of QRP and DX is this kind of thing. I received a QSL card in the mail the other day.\u00a0 N2EIK and I had a contact last year: 12\/31\/2010.\u00a0 I have it in my log.\u00a0 I just received his card, then\u00a0 I filled out a postcard and sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-operating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3298,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/3298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}