QRP Special
11 QRP column: Welcome once again to the fun world of QRP
operating! By Cam Hartford, N6GA
18 QRP a la CARTE: An approach to squeezing some quality
QRP DXing into a busy day By Larry Makoski, W2LJ
22 WORKED ALL STATES WITH 100 MILLIWATTS: An
adventure collecting all 50 states with one-tenth of a watt
By John Watkins, NOEVH
29 JT9: QRP WITH THE MAGIC MULTIPLIED: What about
working JT-9 for QRP on HF? By Gary Liljegren, W4GAL
33 BUILD THE 80M SARDINE-CEIVER: A project to build
a small receiver that fits in a sardine can!
By Erik Westgard, NY9D
36 BUILD YOUR OWN WSPR BEACON: Try K1JT’S WSPR
program to see how far a QRP signal can travel
By Yannick Devos, XV4Y
42 SETTING UP A MESH NETWORK: Using a wireless
digital network for transmitting with low power, a basic guide
By J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT
48 A QRPER’S 40- THROUGH 17-METER EFHW ANTENNA
COUPLER WITH SUPER-SENSITIVE SWR BRIDGE:
An easy-to-build tuner and SWR bridge for a trail-friendly
end-fed half-wave antenna By Richard Fisher, KI6SN
54 SATELLITES AND THE QRPER: Or don’t worry about
sunspots By Mike Herr, WA6ARA
66 KIT-BUILDING: A pair of QRP Quickies
By Joe Eisenberg, KONEB
26 ANNOUNCING: The 2014 CQ WW WPX Contest
60 MATH’S NOTES: How to properly listen to a restored
antique radio By Irwin Math, WA2NDM
70 DIGITAL CONNECTION: How to create an inexpensive
software-defined receiver By Don Rotolo, N2IRZ
74 LEARNING CURVE: Repeaters By Ron Ochu, KOOZ
80 MOBILING: No holes in your vehicle, cold-weather
concerns, and rovers! By Jeff Reinhardt, AA6JR
84 CQ WORLD WIDE: An anniversary in the UK, FCC license
exams in South Africa, and Philippines typhoon wrap-up
By Tom Smerk, AA6TS
FEATURES
DEPARTMENTS
62 PUBLIC SERVICE: EmComm in the sky and on the ground
By Richard Fisher, KI6SN
88 VHF PLUS: Teenager leads ISS contact
By Joe Lynch, N6CL
91 AWARDS: QRP awards, plus a very short-term award
By Ted Melinosky, K1BV
94 DX: A look back at 2013 and a report from South Sudan
By Wayne Mills, N7NG
100 CONTESTING: Can contesting be successful as a spectator
sport? By George Tranos, N2GA
103 PROPAGATION: Equinoctal propagation
By Tomas Hood, NW7US
VOLUME 70 NUMBER 2
2 HAM RADIO NEWS
8 ZERO BIAS
9 ANNOUNCEMENTS
110 HAM SHOP
FEATURES
COLUMNS
113 WASHINGTON BEAT: FCC and Capitol Hill Actions Affecting
Communications
By Richard Fisher, KI6SN
123 MORSE CODE: A Valentine’s Story — Romancing the Key
By Randall Noon, KCOCCR
126 THE LISTENING POST: A Big SWL Shuffle for Miami Radio
International
By Gerry L. Dexter, WPC9GLD
128 WORLD BAND TUNING TIPS
By Gerry L. Dexter, WPC9GLD
134 INTERNET RADIO: Getting Started in VHF-UHF Scanning Can
Be Free and as Easy as ‘A, B, C, D!’
By Richard Fisher, KI6SN
136 PIRATE RADIO: Commander Bunny, The Radio Pirate Who
Would be President
By Steven Handler, WPC9JXK
142 TRAIL-FRIENDLY RADIO: Measuring Your Location’s Antenna
Possibilities Without Leaving Your Computer
By Richard Fisher, KI6SN
144 THE MEDIUM WAVES: A Listening DXpedition to Prince
Edward Island
By Bruce A. Conti, WPC1CAT
150 PERSONAL COMMUNICATION: Freeband: Intervention in a
‘Love-Hate’ Relationship
By Cory GB Sickles, WA3UVV
153 PRACTICAL PROPAGATION: The Need for a Smoothed Solar
Index, Part II
By Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA
155 OPTIMUM SWL WORKING FREQUENCIES
By Tomas Hood, NW7US
156 RADIO DRAMA: Shannon’s Broadcast Classics — On an
Electromagnetic Wing and a Prayer
By Shannon Huniwell, WPC2JUN
161 UNWIRED: The Weirder Side of Wireless and Beyond
By Richard Fisher, KI6SN