Last night I joined the Southern Cross DX Net on 20m, which is one of the regular DX Nets that I check in to. I worked numerous North American stations on the Net, and amongst those was Michael W4ALM in Orlando, Florida.

What made the QSO with Michael so special was that he was running QRP with only 3 watts with a home brew tx and a homebrew inverted vee dipole.

Michael’s transceiver was a homebrew tr9uSDX QRP kit radio.

Below is a short piece of audio that Michael has provided to me. Michael mentions he was running 3 watts and then 30 watts, but he later corrected this to confirm that he was running just 3 watts.

Congratulations Michael. Great QSO.

I received the World Wide Flora Fauna (WWFF) program certificate below in my email inbox today.

It is issued for having activated WWFF references from 9 different entities.

Thank you to the Awards Manager Swa ON5SWA.