{"id":10755,"date":"2019-12-06T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/06\/my-qrpp-signal-arrived-in-utah-100-mw-1950-miles-26-db-above-the-noise\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:04:26","slug":"my-qrpp-signal-arrived-in-utah-100-mw-1950-miles-26-db-above-the-noise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/12\/06\/my-qrpp-signal-arrived-in-utah-100-mw-1950-miles-26-db-above-the-noise\/","title":{"rendered":"My QRPp Signal Arrived in Utah — 100 mW, 1950 miles, 26 db Above the Noise!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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So yesterday morning I was calling CQ on 40 meters with my ET2 two-transistor 100 mW rig. Later, I took a look at the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN). Among the East Coast skimmer stations that regularly pick me up I saw an outlier: WA7LNW in Utah. He’s 1950 miles from me. And the RBN reported that his receiver had me at 26 db above the noise. <\/b><\/div>\n

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Here is a screen shot of the RBN report. Note the time: 1234 UTC. Around sunrise here — so gray line conditions. <\/b><\/div>\n

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But the really BIG factor explaining that 26db s\/n ratio is WA7LNW’s location: <\/b><\/div>\n

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“Realtime spots are being received at this location and uploaded to the Reverse Beacon Network.”<\/b><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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“CW Skimmer antenna is located on cliff edge overlooking the Virgin River Valley, 1,200 ft. below.”<\/b><\/div>\n

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We reported on the WA7LNW RBN station back in 2013: https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/edgy-skimmer-antenna.html<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Check out Jack’s QRZ.com page: <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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RBN is an important resource for QRPers and homebrewers. Three cheers for Jack and all the skimmer stations. Thank you all. <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So yesterday morning I was calling CQ on 40 meters with my ET2 two-transistor 100 mW rig. Later, I took a look at the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN). Among the East Coast skimmer stations that regularly pick me up I saw an outlier: WA7LNW in Utah. He’s 1950 miles from me. And the RBN reported … Continue reading “My QRPp Signal Arrived in Utah — 100 mW, 1950 miles, 26 db Above the Noise!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294,85,27,87,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-et-2","category-minimalist-radio","category-propagation","category-qrp","category-reverse-beacon-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10760,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions\/10760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}