On Tuesday, March 05, 2002 at 10:16, Chris Barker <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote re "[OM] OT - dangerous animals - was W" saying:
...
> ... but I must look up more information about the Doolittle Raiders;
> that looked like a story to warm the cockles of the heart, even if
> the film managed to stretch credibility to the limit (e.g. girlfriend
> managing to listen to the intercom or radio from some 4,000 miles
> away)!
Well, the ARRL has an award for radio amateurs who communicate with all the
continents ( http://www.arrl.org/awards/wac/ - QRP endorsement) or 100
different countries ( http://www.arrl.org/awards/dxcc/qrp/ ) on 5 watts or
less! So it's not totally impossible, especially flying high at night.
"When conditions permit, I try to work DX with milliwatt power levels. I
have worked 32 countries on 3 continents (NA, SA, EU) with 500 milliwatts
or less. Probably my best QSO was working Aruba with 70 milliwatts." (from
along the Allegheny river - http://www.alltel.net/~johnshan/qrp_ss.html )
Tom
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