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[Amps] The Great Equalizer

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Subject: [Amps] The Great Equalizer
From: Wlfuqu00@uky.edu (wlfuqu00@uky.edu)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:51:43 -0400
What does this have to do with QRO???



At 10:45 AM 7/23/02 -0400, alex wrote:
>My transmitter has a total output of -30dBm. My receiver has a maximum
>sensitivity of -42dBm. My antenna is a 3 meter wire. Yesterday I got
>contacts with two JA1, one F3, one HK6, three RU1, two YO, one ZL and many
>more. In 10 minutes I had all Continents 90% of country worked. All with
>5/9+20 :)
>
>Impossibly, you say :) Well no! I simply used a computer and a modem. I have
>seen the Future of Hamming at it is called Internet (well, it is actually
>ECHOLINK)  :) The great Equalizer. The true democratic communication medium.
>No Morse Code, No tests, no restrictions. Just DO IT! To much cangreen of
>some old timers that cling to a Neanderthals way of living :) Halllloooo
>ARRL... do you read this ?
>
>
>Adios Boat Anchor/Winter Heater/Coffee Boiler Amplifiers :) from now on you
>have the world at your command from your 5mW Palm Top :)
>
>This is until we shoot ourselves in the foot ( as usually happens) and start
>to regulate Hamming on Internet :)
>
>
>Alex, A Happy Internetist!
>
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