Copasetic Flow

 The (newly) three quarter watt Rockmite ham radio reached Hungary from Great Basin National Park a few days ago! Maui relayed the receive side from Hungary. A few days ago, a POTA outing from Great Basin National Park ( K-0032 ) had kind of petered out. I listened for the RockMite on the Maui software defined radio , SDR, because—for whatever reason—I can usually find the 20 meter output of the RockMite there during the day whether I'm operating from San Francisco or Great Basin. Sure enough, there was the station: But, this time, I heard another station as I listened. And! They were calling me! A bit more listening revealed that it was HA9RE . I answered back on the RockMite, where I could not hear HA9RE, and was immediately rewareded with his answer which I could only hear on the Maui SDR. Here a few more vidoes that detail the contact, the first ever software defined radio relayed contact with the Rockmite! From the IRL point of view: From the SDR point of view: ...

 The Rockmite ham radio could be heard in Mauii on a software defined radio (SDR) yesterday afternoon on 20 meters! I decided to try the station on a lark more to verify what I thought "couldn't" happen than anything else, and there the little Rockmite was CWing away in the static.   Here's a recording of the signal: Interesting things to note about this : First, a geodesic drawn through and at a perpendicular to the antenna, roughly, points in the direction Utah (lots of contacts with Utah), and Maui. Second, the antenna is located on the East Side of a ridge line. The feedpoint is maybe 3 feet above the ground as seen from Maui. As seen from the East, the antenna is 120 metes about sea level, (and the Bay), per Google Earth.  From the ground that you can actually stand on below the antenna the feeed point is about 20 feet up.   For those who haven't been following along, the antenna is an inverted vee halfwave dipole suspended outside the kitchen window su...