Hi Sam, Agree. They also don't report how the guy they worked had to struggle to pull them out or what his equipment was.
I did a breakdown of the maximum distance to 100, 200 and 300 DXCC countries for each country of the world. EU certainly has a big advantage. Several EU countries have 100 countries within one hop or Es skip. The best locations ring the Mediterranean sea. On the other hand the worst places are in the Pacific. At least they have a "prefix gain" advantage. At the 300 country level, everybody is about equal. Easiest km to 100,200 and 300 countries 5A Libya 3373, 8179, 15547 3V Tunisia 3477, 7762, 15495 9H Malta 3583, 8000, 15315 7X Algeria 3603, 7694, 15173 TA Turkey 3638, 8779. 14158 Difficult 3D2 Fiji 10710, 14499, 17308 3D2 Rotuma 10813, 14260, 16932 T30 West K 10823, 13757, 16170 YJ Vanuatu 10825, 14514, 16819 H40 Temotu 10892, 14213, 16458 73 de Brian/K3KO On 8/1/2011 12:41, Sam Morgan wrote: > All these QRP/QRO contacts stories, > are pretty meaningless to me, > *UNLESS* > they have antenna, band, and qth information included. > > 1w/5w/15w from a 3 ele beam @ 70 feet > is a bit of a different story > from a short clandestine wire and an apartment building.... > > or > 160m vs 20m > > or > DXCC from middle of Europe _or_ middle of Kansas > > just saying...... > ;-) > > -- > GB& 73 > K5OAI > Sam Morgan > > On 8/1/2011 12:48 AM, Dave Sergeant wrote: >> On 31 Jul 2011 at 22:07, vicki glover wrote: >> >>> Until I built my K2 (7186) I had no idea that dx on 15 watts was even >>> possible. I have been running QRO for a couple of years and making the >>> contacts, but getting alot of these same contacts (Sweeden, Hungary, >>> Lithuania) on 15 watts with a radio I built is hard to top. Only been >>> running this rig for a week or two now, but am extreamly well pleased >>> with it. Just wanted to share the joy. 73 mike-kb3qja __ >> >> 15 Watts is decidedly QRO, I have never run more than 5 Watts from my >> K2 in the past 9 years and have 231 DXCC. Last month I worked in the >> Club 72 Marathon (http://club72.su/marathon.html) with just 1 Watt for >> most of my QSOs and found stations came back just as easily with that >> power as they did with 5. Conditions have been pretty dire recently but >> nevertheless had quite a few nice QSOs including some in PY and LU. >> Give it a go, you will be surprised. >> >> 73 Dave G3YMC > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3802 - Release Date: 08/01/11 > > ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1390 / Virus Database: 1518/3802 - Release Date: 08/01/11 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
