Re: [TenTec] Orion CW Sensitivity

[Jim <jlboockh@earthlink.net>]

Well, I'm impressed. (Seriously.)

I would like to have one of those Altoids rigs but I don't have Cinnamon 
Spice. Only Peppermints. Anyone want to trade? (Not so serious.)
Thanks for the post, Jim.

                                Jim  N4AL


Jim Reid wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just for a mark on the wall:  today at 1734 UTC,
> I copied and exchanged reports with W0TUP in
> Minot,  No. Dakota.  He was running 850 mW using
> the Rock-Mite.  He has the little PCB mounted in
> an Altoids Cinnamon spice can (maybe an inch by
> two inches or so).  You can see his little rig and
> QRP distance records at:
>
> http://web.ndak.net/~anelson/rockmite.htm
>
> The distance between us was 3646 miles,  or, per
> his figuring, that is 4289 miles per watt courtesy
> of the amazing sensitivity of the Orion!
>
> I sent him a 439 report.  
>
> As I say,  just a mark on the wall,  but he was excited,
> his greatest distance QRP so far.
>
> 73,  Jim  KH7M
>
>
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