{"id":2957,"date":"2019-10-19T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/19\/qso-3-with-the-et-2-minimalist-transceiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T04:19:21","slug":"qso-3-with-the-et-2-minimalist-transceiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2019\/10\/19\/qso-3-with-the-et-2-minimalist-transceiver\/","title":{"rendered":"QSO #3 with the ET-2 Minimalist Transceiver"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Radio Gods were clearly supporting me on 16 October 2019. I had sent out a plea for people to listen for the 80 mW CQ from my ET-2 rig.<\/a> I had specified 0930 Eastern as the time. Little did I know that there would be a contest at that hour (on a Wednesday morning!) on 40 meter CW. There was no chance of my signals getting through. I leaned that the contest would be over at 1000 hours, so I waited and called CQ again at that hour. Jim W1PID<\/a> had guessed that I would do that. I immediately recognized his call — he was often at the other end of Michael Rainey’s most daring low-power adventures. He was a participant in the famous Rexpeditions, including a coastal effort to send Michael’s voice-powered CW signal across the Atlantic. His normal operating habitat is in the field<\/a>. We had a wonderful QSO. He told me I peaked at S-6. <\/b><\/div>\n
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I have worked W1PID on at least two Straight Key Nights and this blog has had many postings <\/a>about his long-standing involvement in QRP. <\/b><\/div>\n
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Thanks a lot Jim! <\/b><\/div>\n
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The Radio Gods were clearly supporting me on 16 October 2019. I had sent out a plea for people to listen for the 80 mW CQ from my ET-2 rig. I had specified 0930 Eastern as the time. Little did I know that there would be a contest at that hour (on a Wednesday morning!) … Continue reading “QSO #3 with the ET-2 Minimalist Transceiver”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,294,85,87,86,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cw","category-et-2","category-minimalist-radio","category-qrp","category-rainey-michael","category-w1pid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957","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=2957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2960,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2957\/revisions\/2960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}