{"id":278,"date":"2011-03-16T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T23:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/20-years-after-construction-mighty-mite-makes-contact\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T02:52:42","slug":"20-years-after-construction-mighty-mite-makes-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/20-years-after-construction-mighty-mite-makes-contact\/","title":{"rendered":"20 years after construction&#8230; Mighty Mite Makes Contact!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Bert2527sMightyMite.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Bert2527sMightyMite.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584622546084868402\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bert, WF7I, sent us this report from the nuclear reactor building at UVA. You can almost feel the excitment! Congrats Bert! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bill: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I&#8217;m ecstatic to report that my MMM made its first QSO, after almost 20 years, last night at the University of Virginia ham club at the nuclear reactor! I worked W4OEQ, Tom in <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1300270623_0\" >McMinnville, TN<\/span><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">. He gave me a 459 report. I was running about 300-500 mW (hard to tell with our meter) out of the MMM into our inverted vee up high in the trees of Observatory Hill at UVa. I also have three witnesses to the event: our club president, Mark KJ4IEA; club Treasurer Will, KI4LGE; and member Alex, KJ4YWP. I received a round of applause from our group after the QSO was complete! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">It was a very satisfying moment to be sure. Not only to make a QSO with this rig from my past and all those memories, but to do it at the re-vitalized UVa ham club, which has its own long, off-and-on history dating back to the 1930s (at least), and to do it with a captive audience! Our club members, mostly younger guys 18-22 years old, have never done CW and always are in a mesmerized\/stunned condition when they see me tapping out the dots and dashes, and copying it in my head! Everyone was very silent and focused during the QSO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">72\/73!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bert WF7I<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bert, WF7I, sent us this report from the nuclear reactor building at UVA. You can almost feel the excitment! Congrats Bert! Bill: I&#8217;m ecstatic to report that my MMM made its first QSO, after almost 20 years, last night at the University of Virginia ham club at the nuclear reactor! I worked W4OEQ, Tom in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/20-years-after-construction-mighty-mite-makes-contact\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;20 years after construction&#8230; Mighty Mite Makes Contact!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minimalist-radio","category-qrp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}