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Ham Operator Sets New Miles-Per-Watt World Record
DoctorPepper writes "A ham radio operator in New London, North Carolina correctly copied an 80 meter CW beacon in Wappingers Falls, New York, a distance of 546.8 miles. The kicker is, the beacon station, an Elecraft K1, was putting out 40.6 uW (40.6 millionths of a Watt) -- which works out to 13,467,980 miles per watt!"
In english, please?
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
So will this make it easier to bring Dennis Quaid back from the dead?
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
they're always screwing my wifi over, ugh!
to think, you wish they'd just all grow old and die!
but noooooo, they grow old, and set hamd world reccords..
it just isn't fair!
Man B: what?
Man A: 13,467,980 miles per watt
Man B: What?
Man A: Watt?
Man B: What!?!?!?
Man A: Watt!!!!
Man B: Forget it, I'm not playing this stupid thing, go be an A$$.
omg.. after reading that article I got the feeling that there are people even more geeky than computer geeks.
"I'm thrilled the record was set by an all-American team using all-American equipment." The Ten Tec receiver is manufactured in Severville, TN and the Elecraft transmitter is produced in California and offered as a kit.
yes, so relevant...
it would be like running doom 3 on a 286.
Ohm my! That Hertz!
yeah? so watt?
...it's the efficiency of your output.
My cell phone can talk around the world on it's itty
bitty power output.
Got Code?
I'd get into HAM radio...Except I hate talking to people.
-R
I doubt however, that anyone can beat what must be a record of some sort: the detection of the 10 watt (mostly) non-directional radio transmitter atop the Huygens probe while falling into the atmosphere of Titan by the Very Long Baseline Array when nearly 1 billion miles away.
Yeah, but this is a World Record - anything to do with an interplanetary space probe is an Out-Of-This-World Record...
From the list:
KG4UYY - James L. "Lance" Bass
'N SYNC pop singer and cosmonaut wannabe.
this is my sig
- Lawrence Olivier
- Calculon
- Miss Piggy
- Peter O'Toole
continue until bored...Call me old fashioned, but I like a dump to be as memorable as it is devastating - Bender
Here is one: Gerson Strassberg. Inventor of the Pocket Protector. Without pocket protectors and everything that came after it, "Office Space" would just be a weird movie about a lost stapler.
Pete Carr Owner Chatmag.com
Fully attracted by Milli's characteristic-curves, he soon had his resistance at a minimum, and his magnetic field fully excited. He laid her on the ground potential, raised his frequency, lowered his capacitance, then pulled out his high voltage probe and hit resonance. He inserted it into her socket, connecting them in parallel, then began to short circuit her shunt. Finally, Milliamp cried MHO MHO MHO !
With his plate tube generator at maximum plate dissipation, and her coils vibrating from the excessive current flow, Microfarad soon reached his peak also. They fluxed all night, trying various circuits and combinations, until his bar magnet lost all of its strength. Milliamp tried self induction and self excitation, but it damaged her solenoids. With his battery fully discharged, they were unable to excite their generators any further, so they reversed polarity, blew each others fuses, and went Ohm.
Cheers, Peter, W2IRT
Oh wow, Anthony Bongiovi, Jr., cousin of Jon "Bon Jovi" Bongiovi made the list. Oh, here's a good one... the kid who planted bleach and box cutters on planes... Nathaniel T. Heatwole. I am absolutely starstruck! Larry L. Wheeler, who appeared ina segment for "PAX" network television show "It's a Miracle," is a ham operator! Even Branch Davidian is represented (Jeffrey C. Little and Douglas Wayne Martin)! OMG, Sir Mix-a-Lot... hahahahha
while a 1000' Beverage is a big antenna
Is that anything like a yard of beer?