Dick, That must also be a world-record for the longest QSO ever. Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light-years distant from Earth so a round trip would be approximately 8.74 years just to establish a firm contact. Technically, if you guys exchanged the typical signal report, name, qth, and other information you should still be working on waiting for his name. Then, you could have done that in your CQ call itself and saved some time.
73, phil, K7PEH > On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Richard Jubinville <[email protected]> wrote: > > How did I ever forget this ?? I was able to run my OCF Dipole under the High > Voltage power lines behind my house, which run from Niagara Falls station to > Millbury, Massachusetts. The RF coupled to the 6 power lines and now I have > the longest Dipole antenna in the world according to Guinness Book of > Records!! I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! And this > is a DX record . > > 73 / Dick > > W1REJ > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
