{"id":2217,"date":"2009-11-01T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-31T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/01\/crossing-the-pond-with-the-power-of-your-voice\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T02:55:08","slug":"crossing-the-pond-with-the-power-of-your-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/01\/crossing-the-pond-with-the-power-of-your-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing the Pond… with the power of your voice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Michael Rainey, AA1TJ, has his eye on the North Atlantic. He’s been thinking about maritime horns, and how far they could reach. He’s built another kind of horn. I’m pretty sure that this one will soon take his voice and — using ONLY the power of that voice — send it across the mighty Atlantic. That’s a pretty astonishing horn! <\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday Michael put a really nice message up on the QRP-L list. This is the kind of message that has earned him the title “Poet Laureate of QRP.” Here is an excerpt: <\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"I’m currently sitting at a desk on top of Vermont’s highest mountain.<\/span>
In the far distance I can see the Presidential mountain range of <\/span>New
Hampshire<\/span>. Roughly twice as far away is the <\/span>Atlantic Ocean<\/span>. The other<\/span>
night I spoke into a tin can, and the power of my voice carried a<\/span>
message to the Maine seacoast where K1MPM heard me as clear as a bell.<\/span>
I think this is absolutely magical. The present prospect of blowing<\/span>
into a tiny horn and having this pittance of exhaled energy carry a<\/span>
message back to <\/span>England<\/span> – when the bone shaking horn on the old <\/span>Queen
Mary<\/span> couldn’t carry to the horizon – is nearly beyond comprehension. I<\/span>
know this is how everyone of us feels when we operate QRP.<\/span><\/p>\n

Read the rest of Michael’s message here: <\/span>
http:\/\/mjrainey.googlepages.com\/lavoixdesoc%C3%A9ans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Rainey, AA1TJ, has his eye on the North Atlantic. He’s been thinking about maritime horns, and how far they could reach. He’s built another kind of horn. I’m pretty sure that this one will soon take his voice and — using ONLY the power of that voice — send it across the mighty Atlantic. … Continue reading “Crossing the Pond… with the power of your voice”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,85,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aa1tj","category-minimalist-radio","category-rainey-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}