On 7/13/2011 8:32 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > Station KPH/KFS in California participated in the "Night of Nights" > operations this week marking another anniversary since the end of CW as the > mainstay of Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS).
Managed to snag KPH QSA 5 [no surprise there!] and KLB at about QSA 3. Did not hear WLO, but I have in the past. Nothing on the Holy Frequency. > Check out the sidetone-- very typical of commercial CW gear and why I > chuckle at those who insist on a perfect sine wave sidetone from their rigs. Our operating positions had a second RX, the one at the position I usually sat was an R-388, and while the station supplied sidetone for our cans [not exactly a sine wave], I just felt better getting mine from that RX ... sort of proved to me that the TX was actually on the air since I couldn't see it. > I had the pleasure of visiting that station, and working them on the air > occasionally, when their CW signal was the "voice of the Pacific" The only place I ever heard them down in So. Cal. was on 600m. See below. > The transmitter site shown is some miles south at Bolinas. That way they > didn't need any fancy QSK circuitry. And also because the CW maritime radio service was full duplex everywhere, except 600m. My 5KW signal on 600m was sure loud in the R-388 :-) N of N is a fun little romp through history, if you haven't tried it, you might give it a shot next year. If you're not familiar with commercial CW procedures, I have a 85 MB British PDF that will inform you way deeper than you might like to go. Let me know, I'll email you a copy. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
