John,

if you run 1 W ERP from a small antenna it will be about 10 hours.
But if you run 1 W ERP from a big antenna it will take far less time ;-)

73, Rik ON7YD


At 22:53 18/01/2009, you wrote:

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:41:48 +0100
Rik Strobbe <[email protected]> wrote:

> And a good part of our solar system would be in the near field.
> Mal would have to contact Pluto before he could claim a DX ;-)
>

What's the "out and back" time for a message to Pluto?

Might be a long wait to find out "it's not raining also"

John

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