#7 - 1000 MPW Award... 1237 MPW @ 3 Watts

 

It was great to get a EQSL card from Take (JR2IUB) in Japan at 3 watts. 

Propagation was a lot better tonight on 10 metres, so I managed to keep my power down to 3 watts for a QSO distance of 3713 miles.

Shizuoka Japan

At 3 watts, that works out to 1237 MPW, enabling me to get yet another 1000 MPW award. 

#6 - 1000 MPW Award... 1089 MPW @ 1 Watt

 

It was great to get a 2nd contact from Phillip (VK8MC) up in Darwin, only this time I used only 1 watt. 

Being that we're both members of the SKCC club and propagation was good, I thought it would be a great opportunity to lower my power down to 1 watt.  Problem was .. he gave me a 559 ! In hindsight and in reality, I could have gone down to 1/2 watt or even less!
Remember, you can't crank down the power after you've made contact. That's cheating. Oh well.. I'll just have to wait until next time 😀

Next time Phillip !

Still... at 1 watt, that works out to 1089 MPW, enabling me to get yet another 1000 MPW award. 

Darwin is just outside the inner RED 1 watt circle  West-North west of my QTH. 

# 6 -1000 MPW Award

EQSL card from JJ1FXF - 5 watts

 It was great to get yet another EQSL card from Hiro (JJ1FXF) in Japan. Propagation wasn't all that good tonight,  so I had to bump my power up from 3 watts to 5 watts,.but we managed to exchange the usual plus our SKCC numbers. 

EQSL card from VK1AAF - 3 watts

 It was great to get a EQSL card from Peter (VK1AAF) down at Canberra on 15m.  😅  Propagation was "ok" for the day and I was hoping to get him on 1 watt. Unfortunately I had to go to 3 watts to get above the noise floor. 

Anyway... Thanks for the QSO Peter. 73's

EQSL card from JA7ODY - 5 watts

 It was great to get a EQSL card from Hideo (JA7ODY) in Japan. Propagation wasn't all that good that day, so I had to bump my power up from 2.5 watts to 5 watts just to get above the noise floor. 
Unfortunately by doing this, it only worked out to be 783 miles per watt. 

#5 - 1000 MPW Award... 1086 MPW @ 1 Watt

Another great day on 15 meters, this time getting a EQSL card from Max (VK2ARZ) in New South Wales using 1 watt. I often hear Max tapping out "CQ", so it was good to get a contact with him. What was even better is that he slowed down for me. He gave me a 529 report. 

Working Max at 1 watt, that works out to 1086 MPW, enabling me to get yet another 1000 MPW award.

#4 - 1000 MPW Award... 1982 MPW @ 1 Watt

It was great to get a EQSL card from Muhammad (YB8RVI) in Indonesia today using 1 watt.

Propagation was pretty good today on 15 metres and he was booming thru down here in Northern Australia. So I decided to turn my power down to 1 watt and answer him. He came back and gave me a 599. In hindsight, I should have gone down to 250 milliwatts. Oh well..next time. 

At 1 watt, that works out to 1982 MPW, enabling me to get yet another 1000 MPW award. 

#4 1000 MPW Award