The soon to be announced K6 (see the April 1st posts) will routinely manage HDCWH mode (Hyper-Drive Cosmic Worm Hole mode), a perfect match for the W1REJ OCF High Voltage power line Dipole. Oh, and it’s in the new 10kHZ super ESSB mode.
> On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Phil Hystad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dick, > > That must also be a world-record for the longest QSO ever. Alpha Centauri is > 4.37 light-years distant from Earth so a round trip would be approximately > 8.74 years just to establish a firm contact. Technically, if you guys > exchanged the typical signal report, name, qth, and other information you > should still be working on waiting for his name. Then, you could have done > that in your CQ call itself and saved some time. > > 73, phil, K7PEH > > >> On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Richard Jubinville <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> How did I ever forget this ?? I was able to run my OCF Dipole under the >> High Voltage power lines behind my house, which run from Niagara Falls >> station to Millbury, Massachusetts. The RF coupled to the 6 power lines and >> now I have the longest Dipole antenna in the world according to Guinness >> Book of Records!! I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! >> And this is a DX record . >> >> 73 / Dick >> >> W1REJ >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft> > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm <http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm> > Post: mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net <http://www.qsl.net/> > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > <http://www.qsl.net/donate.html> > Message delivered to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> David Ahrendts [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
