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A quick love note for uBitx ... Just worked Andy VK5MAV/6 with my seven watts.? Heard him coming through loud and clear, really excellent receive on this radio.? He is a top notch operator and took my call split in traffic, he is activating some island off the west coast of Australia (OC-211 according to website search).?

He definitely did his part; I have a very quiet listening location; and my antenna is doing most of the work ... but still an exciting QSO to log.

7.005MHz CW, uBitx v5, only mods are RTLSDR tap on 45MHz first IF, and N6DT AGC.? Ant = fixed two element wire beam at 65ft.

73
--Ron
K0EIA

Hi Ron

Fascinating and well done. I am still in the process of setting up my uBitx (got to tick off some other projects first), so it's always interesting to read about what this little thing can do.

Cheers
Ben
ZS6BDK

10000 miles Excellent. I got a ssb contact with a Australian ham on phone a couple of weeks ago.

I wonder if the yahoos with amps are still going to be going strong when the bands come back.

Yep, with CW or JT65 (with error correction) you can do a lot with a
very little.
Great job
Congrats

Well done especially considering we are at the lowest end of the cycle! At the highest or so, I guess in 2014, I had a 18000, ZL from Italy, with 3 watts (ILER20 qrp). The amps will still be very useful to hams who, listening to a nearby ham struggling with a qrp, want to show off their 'auxiliary leg'. It is really fascinating how far waves may travel with ridiculous power. Trying QO-100 geostationary sat at 18000km distance I had a QSO with 2w and a grid dish for WiFi (specs of the antenna state I could reach an access point at 56km far...)