The power of pskmail... =============== I have been quite busy writing and testing the new SSL POP / Gmail version of pskmail this week. For this I had set up a server on my shack computer (PA0R-1) connected to the Ten Tec ORION. The ORION was set to its lowest possible power (1 Watt) and connected to the spider beam (20/15/10)... I had reduced the power of the client, an FT897D to 5 Watts, the minimum it will run, and started testing... I was stunned to see the complete testing procedure errorless in the log of PI4TUE on 10.148 MHz, which is some 20 km away (ground wave) , including the 1 Watt transmissions of the server... I was even more excited when I saw a large part of the proceedings (the minutes it was on the qrg, as it was scanning) in the log of SM0RWO, 1500 km away. Including the server transmissions with 1 Watt/no proper antenna!!! Talking about system power.... Rein PA0R