So far no one has mentioned the Novice limitations. 75 watts input to the final, crystal controlled. (At least that is what I remember in the mid 60's.)
Mark AD5SS On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Tony Estep <estept...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Bill W4ZV <btipp...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > >> The peak was actually late December 1957 (Solar Flux = 375 and sunspots = >> 355). >> I was very lucky to be QRV then and made the first Novice DXCC: >> http://www.novice.bappy.com/about_21.html >> > ============ > Yep, those were legendary days. I too made Novice DXCC, shortly after Bill. > He was KN4RID in those days. I worked my 100th right after he got his, but > I stuck my cards in a drawer and didn't send them in for over a decade. > Finally I dug 'em out and got my DXCC certificate, issued under my novice > call, KN0LTB. It's still up on the wall.There was one other novice who did > it, but I can't remember who it was. The bands were open practically 24 > hours and 15 meter CW, which was where you had to be as a novice, was > hopping all the time. You could hear scientists from all over using calls > ending in -IGY, standing for international geophysical year. They traveled > to far-flung places to take readings on propagation, weather patterns, > aurora, and anything else they expected to be affected by the record levels > of solar activity. Those were the days of phone patches (no Skype), and 15 > phone had a constant flow of patched conversations from scientist phoning > back to the home folks. Even in those days there was SSB activity, mostly > coming from 10 watt phasing exciters. Other popular rigs included the > Viking Ranger and the Heath DX-100. The tube of the day was the 6146. The > older hams who mentored me had home-brew rack-mounted monstrosities, > plug-in coils, something like a pair of 250TH tubes modulated by another > pair of 250THs, power transformer as big as a wastebasket. > > 73, > Tony KT0NY > >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to plcm...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
