G3RJV reports on three interesting QRP feats: a new QRP miles-per watt receiving record; achieving 200 DXCC entities with an Elecraft K2; WAS with a Tuna-Tin transmitter. He describes a new transceiver subsystem from Cumbria Designs Richard Fisher, KI6SN, QRP columnist for WorldRadio magazine, has reported a new QRP world receiving record - 20,221,893 miles per watt from the 3.5MHz beacon N2XE - on Monday, 17 January 2005. In an announcement on the N2XE beacon website, John Ceccherelli writes: "A radio signal with 2,000 times less power than it takes to light a digit on an alarm clock was successfully received by William Tippett, W4ZV, of New London, NC... he correctly copied the Morse code word 'GOLD' from the N2XE beacon transmitting with a peak carrier power of 27μW. Tippett confirmed reception of the beacon at 1153Z, 17 January, 2005.
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