My son Billy was back from college over the weekend (he came back to help me celebrate the completion of yet another orbit of the sun). I was showing him my 8 part rig and telling him that it puts out 20 mW. He asked a good question (he is a scientist): What is the voltage at the antenna terminal. I checked: ONE VOLT rms. About 1.414 volts peak. Think about that. My transmitter is sending a signal to New Hampshire from Virginia on less than the voltage of AA battery.
Two more spots on the Reverse Beacon Network (see above). Another skimmer station in New Hampshire. My signals seem to like the granite state.
FreeDV Sunday net - very poor conditions
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There is a G1 Geomagnetic storm at the moment and local contacts were very
difficult on 40m. We started the net there and I had contacts with VK2BLQ
and VK...
5 hours ago
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