Bill, W4ZV goes into the history books with an impressive 6,807,692 miles
per watt! The official calibrated and verified output power over the 4 day
run was 80.6 uW. Let's put that in perspective: Working the eastern edge
of Germany--say Berlin--from the east coast at 500mW would be 11,500 miles
per watt. If you did it with 1mW, that would be 3,850,000 miles per watt.
Bill has put up 6.8 million miles per watt and he's not out of steam yet.
The guy is phenomenal.
By the way, the code word was ROGER. Eight (8) stations got it and 1 had a
good shot at it. That's 99,256 correct reports per watt--also a new
record. It is never arm chair copy. The stations that get it and many who
get bits and pieces put in a lot of time and hard effort. I can't thank
them enough. There are things you can do to improve reception besides
putting up a 1000 foot beverage. Perhaps Bill would like to share some
tips. In any event, the late Bill Pierpont, N0HFF, goes into some of the
psycho-acoustic science that can vastly improve weak signal performance.
If you don't have "The Art and Skill of Radio Telegraphy", get it! It's
free and on the web or available in hard copy from FISTS.
The night of December 27 and 28 clearly had the best propagation. Only
Paul, N1BUG snagged the codeword on the following evening. Here's the
Summary in order of receipt:
Call, Name State Grid RST Time Miles/watt Rig/antenna
December 27
KR2Q, Doug NJ FN20ru 5?9 2021Z 769,231 TS940sat/half wave
wire
K3SV, Bill PA FN01ik 509 2111Z 3,476,427 1000D/4-square
N2NC, John NJ FN20ve 419 2113Z 1,232,010 1000MP/Dipole
W1CSM, Bruce MA FN42fu 439 2235Z 1,826,303 756/Dipole
December 28
K3UL, Bob PA FN11lf 349 2351Z 2,060,794 746pro/2 element
vertical array
K3JJG, Ed PA FM29bw 349 0030Z 1,929,280 Drake RC4/Slinky
Beverage
W4ZV, Bill NC EM92uk 529 0140Z 6,807,692 Orion/1000'
Beverage
N1BUG, Paul ME FN55mf 339 2355Z 4,352,357
TS450s/Inverted Vee
AA4XX, Paul, North Carolina reported copy of N2XE/B many times during the
run but never got good copy on the code word. The QSB gods have been
treating Paul poorly of late.
For a change of pace, I'll run a 40 meter beacon tonight at 5mW on 7.0315
MHz starting at 2100Z until at least 1300Z. That should be heard around
the globe.
73,
N2XE
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