Early morning Pedestrian Mobile

A recent early morning pedestrian mobile session on Sunday 21/July/2013, apart from providing a long list of DX contacts, provided the opportunity to work some QRP with KX7XX in San Francisco.

I'd been on air for at least four hours, my batteries were fried and I was delivering at most 50W on high power, thankfully the conditions were good and Luke didn't mind giving me some signal reports on varying power, I remembered to video the event:

Had I remembered to start the video rolling sooner I'd have been able to capture the moment my friend, and co pedestrian mobiler, Dave G4AKC was able to work Luke with 9mW, that's not a typo, 9mW SSB contact between Dave G4AKC and Luke KK7XX, that makes my 500mW contact look positively QRO.

A little later, and with my batteries almost dead, an estimated antenna input of 10 to 20W and we got a call from Philippe, FO4BM, I wasn't too strong with him, but perfect copy, had the group not been so big it would have been good to try mW again, maybe next time: