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Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 18:58:25 +0100
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From: "Tom Boucher" <tom@telemetry.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: LF: Re: G6RO QRP transmissions
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Ron's signal has been 549/559 with me all day in Devon and had a 100%
copy QSO with him this morning. Well done Ron (and Steve)!

Tom G3OLB

Steve Rawlings  writes
>Dave G3YMC wrote:
>> I heard Ron G6RO calling CQ several times last week identifying as
>> using qrp - he was 549, perfect copy, against the 579 I normally copy
>> him.  . . . .   At 283km this is an excellent distance for qrp.
>
>Mike G3XDV wrote:
>> I heard Ron on Sunday morning, but only at 319, signing G6RO/QRP.
>
>This morning (Sunday) I had a fine QSO with Ron.  His QRP signal (5 W RF)
>was RST 439 here (with QRM & QRN), rising to R5 at times.  Distance is 253
>km.  The remarkable thing is that Ron's QTH is off the side of my single
>turn loop - the only TX/RX antenna that I had available this morning!  I'm
>sure that Ron would have been RST 559, if I had been using an
>omnidirectional antenna.
>
>Regards to all,
>Steve GW4ALG
>