That may be true. However, as stated on QRZ.com, the story is about a WORLD record, versus any kind of distance record.

---Michael, AE6QC

-----Original Message----- From: sbarc-list-bounces@lists.netlojix.com [mailto:sbarc-list-bounces@lists.netlojix.com] On Behalf Of Jay Hennigan Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 01:13 PM To: Marvin Johnston Cc: sbarc Subject: Re: [Sbarc-list] New QRP World Record

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Marvin Johnston wrote:

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A friend of mine just told me about the new QRP world

record. The story

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is at http://www.qrz.com/. For the QRPers out there, is

putting out a

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beacon like they did in New York something to do out here?

I think that Voyager and other spacecraft have substantially better miles-per-watt records...