Posted: 6/5/2015 7:22:06 PM EDT
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I have been checking this guy's website occasionally for years K3WWP
If you have some time to kill, it is kind of interesting to read some of the statistics he has accumulated over the years about his ham radio operation. The STATS are located here if you don't want to read through the rest of it. The Reader's Digest version is this: he decided at some point in 1994 to get on the air and make at least one contact every day and see how long he could keep this streak going. He started out with a 100 watt rig, a wire antenna, and only runs CW. Early on, he decided that running 100 watts was shooting fish in a barrel and he switched over to QRP. Later he decided that was too easy and went to milliwatt power levels. And he kept very good records of his activity, not just a log, but compiled the information into these stats like which states he worked the most, how many times he worked various countries and stuff like that. Since he started doing this, he was worked over 60,000 QSOs. He has worked 218 countries..................................... The take home message is validation of what can be done with simple wire antennas (some of which are indoors in his attic) as well as QRP if you get on the air. He lives in town and doesn't have a tower or anything FWIW. I just found this entertaining and thought you might also. |
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Quoted: I have been checking this guy's website occasionally for years K3WWP If you have some time to kill, it is kind of interesting to read some of the statistics he has accumulated over the years about his ham radio operation. The STATS are located here if you don't want to read through the rest of it. The Reader's Digest version is this: he decided at some point in 1994 to get on the air and make at least one contact every day and see how long he could keep this streak going. He started out with a 100 watt rig, a wire antenna, and only runs CW. Early on, he decided that running 100 watts was shooting fish in a barrel and he switched over to QRP. Later he decided that was too easy and went to milliwatt power levels. And he kept very good records of his activity, not just a log, but compiled the information into these stats like which states he worked the most, how many times he worked various countries and stuff like that. Since he started doing this, he was worked over 60,000 QSOs. He has worked 218 countries..................................... The take home message is validation of what can be done with simple wire antennas (some of which are indoors in his attic) as well as QRP if you get on the air. He lives in town and doesn't have a tower or anything FWIW. I just found this entertaining and thought you might also. |