New Ham world record

An eham.net article today pointed out the you don't need alot of power to transmit a great distance. Previous records unknown, the new record set by Bill Tippett, W4ZV, of New London, NC. He was able to copy a cw (Morse code) beacon on the 80 meter band (3.5mhz) from Wappingers Falls, NY a total of 547 miles. What makes this so amazing is that the beacon was only transmitting at a peak wattage of .0000406 (40 millionths of a watt). To put this is perspective a standard linksys access point(wap11) transmitts at peak power of .1 watts and has a range of about 1000 meters. The record breaking stations was able copy aouther stations transmiting roughly 60,000 times less power over 860% farther.

To learn more goto:
http://www.eham.net/articles/9982