18 Nov 2012

Barbados on 10m QRP

8P6BX in Barbados
Whilst looking for QSOs with Lesser Chirpy on 28.060MHz this afternoon I heard Ron 8P6BX in Barbados calling CQ. No go with 70mW so I turned on the FT817 and worked him with 5W getting a 569 report. He was running 3W and was peaking 589 with me. It was a nice, solid 2-way QRP QSO on CW.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSun Nov 18, 04:04:00 pm GMT

    Ahh but did you hear the Barbados station wid the Chirpy??

    Tony

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  2. Roger G3XBMSun Nov 18, 04:10:00 pm GMT

    Hi Tony,

    No he was too weak to copy on Chirpy RX unfortunately, although I did try to hear him with it. Chirpy only really hears signals when stations are about S8 or better on the FT817 (around -95dBm comfortable in a very quiet room).

    73s
    Roger G3XBM

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  3. AnonymousSun Nov 18, 04:26:00 pm GMT

    Well done all the same. The fact that Chirpy is being heard warrants extra audio stage just to lift things!!

    Tony

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