QSYMinutes.2012.01.v0

Note: there are no minutes for December, 2011. The club held its annual holiday party instead of a formal meeting.

My Fall 2011 issue of QRP Quarterly had a nice summary of different antenna types and their respective efficiencies and best operating types (DX vs. NVIS).

Tony, W1ZMB went home after today’s QSY Meeting and worked Brazil, on 20 meters, with 500 milliwatts, CW, and his OCF dipole.

According to QRZ.com, the great circle mileage qualifies Tony for working 5,587.8 Miles per Watt. 

A guy with a Steppir and a KW would haveto work a station 2,793,900 miles away to equal this accomplishment!

Congratulations, Tony, for your contributions to the art, science, and pure fun  of QRP.

VK2DX Ham radio blog

TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012

Late morning start – beaming to US via the long path on 20m.
The very first one to answer my CQ was actually a 5 watter EA8BWY/QRP.
Very exciting and promising. Unfortunately run to US was painfully slow
with just a bunch of stations worked.

Slow run got me distracted – I caught myself drifting away chasing TO5G on RTTY.
Half of my operating time went on that one, but I guess it was worth it.

10m open very late, just at the time I had to catch bus to work.

Overall: one very slow morning.

Then came the email which made my day:

Hello, Nick.

You might be interested to know that I worked you today at approx. 1945 
UTC on 14.024.945 with my K3 at 4 watts into a 44 foot doublet in my 
attic.

73, Stan WB2LQF
KX1 #2411 K1#2994 K2# 6980 K3#5244 K9 #1 (Cocoa the Chihuahua)
Everything is QRP, even the dog.

NOTE:  Nick VK2DX is located right in the center of Australia, approximately 10,500 miles away (and long path would make it about 14,500 miles).