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Actually, my ERP is less than 40 Watts, because on 20 meters I have a
vertical dipole and 75 feet of RG-8X.
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On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:39:10 -0800, dave wrote:

Actually, my ERP is less than 40 Watts, because on 20 meters I have a
vertical dipole and 75 feet of RG-8X.


What part of Russia?
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dave wrote:

Actually, my ERP is less than 40 Watts, because on 20 meters I have a
vertical dipole and 75 feet of RG-8X.


If you'd learn the code you could work them with even less power!


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dave wrote:

Actually, my ERP is less than 40 Watts, because on 20 meters I have a
vertical dipole and 75 feet of RG-8X.


dxAce wrote:

If you'd learn the code you could work them with even less power!


This, coming from a dxDufus who hasn't made a CW QSO in years and
probably decades.

Do as he says, not as he does.

Bwahahahahaha...
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On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:39:10 -0800, dave wrote:

Actually, my ERP is less than 40 Watts, because on 20 meters I have a
vertical dipole and 75 feet of RG-8X.


What part of Russia?


Just barely; Kamchatka.


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dxAce wrote:

dave wrote:

Actually, my ERP is less than 40 Watts, because on 20 meters I have a
vertical dipole and 75 feet of RG-8X.


If you'd learn the code you could work them with even less power!



If I wan to use CW I can tell my computer to send and receive CW. I
still might learn the code, so I can work the world from an Altoids tin.
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