This story is posted on Slashdot today:

"A ham radio operator in New London, North Carolina correctly copied an 80
meter CW beacon in Wappingers Falls, New York, a distance of 546.8 miles.
The kicker is, the beacon station, an Elecraft K1, was putting out 40.6 uW
(40.6 millionths of a Watt) -- which works out to 13,467,980 miles per
watt!"

The story and comments thread is he

http://tinyurl.com/3jvgc

Pretty cool.

-- Stinger

Stinger wrote:

This story is posted on Slashdot today:

"A ham radio operator in New London, North Carolina correctly copied an 80
meter CW beacon in Wappingers Falls, New York, a distance of 546.8 miles.
The kicker is, the beacon station, an Elecraft K1, was putting out 40.6 uW
(40.6 millionths of a Watt) -- which works out to 13,467,980 miles per
watt!"

The story and comments thread is he

http://tinyurl.com/3jvgc

Pretty cool.

-- Stinger

Cool?

I've done far better than that mileage wise with some HIFER beacons.

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Stinger wrote:

This story is posted on Slashdot today:

"A ham radio operator in New London, North Carolina correctly copied an
80
meter CW beacon in Wappingers Falls, New York, a distance of 546.8 miles.
The kicker is, the beacon station, an Elecraft K1, was putting out 40.6
uW
(40.6 millionths of a Watt) -- which works out to 13,467,980 miles per
watt!"

The story and comments thread is he

http://tinyurl.com/3jvgc

Pretty cool.

-- Stinger

Cool?

I've done far better than that mileage wise with some HIFER beacons.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


No doubt. But the story isn't simply distance, it's that the transmitter
was putting out only 40.6 millionths of a Watt and it was copied correctly
by a HAM over 540 miles away.

Relax -- I'm still trying to hear Diego Garcia, and I very much appreciate
your alerting me when they're broadcasting. Sooner or later, I'm going to
bag 'em.

-- Stinger

Stinger wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Stinger wrote:

This story is posted on Slashdot today:

"A ham radio operator in New London, North Carolina correctly copied an
80
meter CW beacon in Wappingers Falls, New York, a distance of 546.8 miles.
The kicker is, the beacon station, an Elecraft K1, was putting out 40.6
uW
(40.6 millionths of a Watt) -- which works out to 13,467,980 miles per
watt!"

The story and comments thread is he

http://tinyurl.com/3jvgc

Pretty cool.

-- Stinger

Cool?

I've done far better than that mileage wise with some HIFER beacons.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


No doubt. But the story isn't simply distance, it's that the transmitter
was putting out only 40.6 millionths of a Watt and it was copied correctly
by a HAM over 540 miles away.

Yes, and my point was that I've copied low power (lower power, please read) over
a longer distance.



Relax -- I'm still trying to hear Diego Garcia, and I very much appreciate
your alerting me when they're broadcasting. Sooner or later, I'm going to
bag 'em.

-- Stinger

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Stinger wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Stinger wrote:

This story is posted on Slashdot today:

"A ham radio operator in New London, North Carolina correctly copied
an
80
meter CW beacon in Wappingers Falls, New York, a distance of 546.8
miles.
The kicker is, the beacon station, an Elecraft K1, was putting out
40.6
uW
(40.6 millionths of a Watt) -- which works out to 13,467,980 miles per
watt!"

The story and comments thread is he

http://tinyurl.com/3jvgc

Pretty cool.

-- Stinger

Cool?

I've done far better than that mileage wise with some HIFER beacons.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


No doubt. But the story isn't simply distance, it's that the transmitter
was putting out only 40.6 millionths of a Watt and it was copied
correctly
by a HAM over 540 miles away.

Yes, and my point was that I've copied low power (lower power, please
read) over
a longer distance.

Again, your comment is relevant if your "lower power, please read" is equal
to or less than 40.6 millionths of a Watt.

I'm certainly no expert on HIFER beacons, but I think it's safe to say they
broadcast at a significantly higher power than 40.6 MILLIONTHS of a Watt.

-- Stinger

P.S. -- At the feast of ego, everyone leaves hungry.

Stinger wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Stinger wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Stinger wrote:

This story is posted on Slashdot today:

"A ham radio operator in New London, North Carolina correctly copied
an
80
meter CW beacon in Wappingers Falls, New York, a distance of 546.8
miles.
The kicker is, the beacon station, an Elecraft K1, was putting out
40.6
uW
(40.6 millionths of a Watt) -- which works out to 13,467,980 miles per
watt!"

The story and comments thread is he

http://tinyurl.com/3jvgc

Pretty cool.

-- Stinger

Cool?

I've done far better than that mileage wise with some HIFER beacons.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


No doubt. But the story isn't simply distance, it's that the transmitter
was putting out only 40.6 millionths of a Watt and it was copied
correctly
by a HAM over 540 miles away.

Yes, and my point was that I've copied low power (lower power, please
read) over
a longer distance.

Again, your comment is relevant if your "lower power, please read" is equal
to or less than 40.6 millionths of a Watt.

I'm certainly no expert on HIFER beacons, but I think it's safe to say they
broadcast at a significantly higher power than 40.6 MILLIONTHS of a Watt.

I'm not an expert on anything either... I'm just damn good!

LOL

dxAce
Michigan
USA

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:52:23 -0600, "Stinger"
wrote:


"dxAce" wrote in message
...


Stinger wrote:

This story is posted on Slashdot today:

"A ham radio operator in New London, North Carolina correctly copied an
80
meter CW beacon in Wappingers Falls, New York, a distance of 546.8 miles.
The kicker is, the beacon station, an Elecraft K1, was putting out 40.6
uW
(40.6 millionths of a Watt) -- which works out to 13,467,980 miles per
watt!"

The story and comments thread is he

http://tinyurl.com/3jvgc

Pretty cool.

-- Stinger

Cool?

I've done far better than that mileage wise with some HIFER beacons.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


No doubt. But the story isn't simply distance, it's that the transmitter
was putting out only 40.6 millionths of a Watt and it was copied correctly
by a HAM over 540 miles away.

Relax -- I'm still trying to hear Diego Garcia, and I very much appreciate
your alerting me when they're broadcasting. Sooner or later, I'm going to
bag 'em.

-- Stinger


Might want to scan 15 meter ham band every so often for VQ9LA on Diego
Garcia. I heard he was on 80 meters in December but that would be a
tough catch. I talked to him on 20 meters a few years ago but
propagation was much better then....

Jim

Stinger wrote:





No doubt. But the story isn't simply distance, it's that the transmitter
was putting out only 40.6 millionths of a Watt and it was copied correctly
by a HAM over 540 miles away.

So how do you measure 40.6 millionths of a watt?

Cmd Buzz Corey wrote:
Stinger wrote:





No doubt. But the story isn't simply distance, it's that the
transmitter was putting out only 40.6 millionths of a Watt and it was
copied correctly by a HAM over 540 miles away.


So how do you measure 40.6 millionths of a watt?



This article gives some details.
http://www.eham.net/articles/9982
-Bill

On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 19:19:13 -0700, Cmd Buzz Corey
wrote:

So how do you measure 40.6 millionths of a watt?

A wattmeter about 50 feet wide, 0 on the left, .50 watts on the right?

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