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kg4kww
07-10-2008, 03:57 PM
W1AW/KL7 to Operate from Arctic Circle -- Just 300 miles south of the Alaskan Arctic Ocean -- where the Arctic Circle crosses the Dalton Highway (66 degrees, 33 minutes north) -- W1AW/KL7 will be on the air (grid square BP56) July 26-August 10 on all bands from 160-6 meters. This ARRL 2008 Alaska State Convention Special Event Station plans to run two HF stations operating CW, SSB and digital, one satellite station and one station devoted to 146.52 MHz. The Alaskan summer skies are ablaze with gray line-enhanced propagation effects, providing six to eight hour spurts of activity to most of the ham radio world. W1AW/KL7 plans to be active from 0600 UTC-1400 UTC to maximize gray line propagation. From Alaska, signals will take off in both directions at the same time: Europe to the East on one side, with Asia to the West on the other side. For an illustration of how Arctic gray line propagation works, see page 21 in the August 2008 issue of QST. The 2008 Alaska ARRL Convention will run from August 1-4, 2008 in Anchorage. -- Information provided by Bill Balzarini, KL7BB
Link To Arrl Article (http://www.arrl.org/?artid=8327)
KG6WOU
07-11-2008, 07:05 AM
Bring your own towers - I was just there last week and there ain't enough trees to hang anything but NVIS....
And no one is listening anyway, it seems - I've been very disappointed with portable operation here in KL7 land. Had high hopes but they have been dashed.
Yup....
Days and days can go by here in the Interior where you won't hear ANY
amateur signals on ANY band......just the way it is.
Most people who work HF in the "lower 48" have no idea what HF
propagation is like up here...It just ain't the same at all.
Takes directional antenna arrays to work into Washington State
on 20 meters from the Interior here.....and that is not a sure thing all the time
either.
40 meters works only rarely, and 80 meters won't make it at all.
Wooo hooo! KL7 is going to get on the air!! I don't know if I can take the excitement!! :rolleyes:
kg4kww
07-12-2008, 02:49 AM
Yep I shall listen out for them.
Any idea whch frequencies they will be using on HF for SSB and CW?
Thanks
They have had pretty good signals coming into North Texas. I have them worked 20 CW and Phone. Here is a link that you can scope out...
http://www.akhamfest.com/
kg4kww
07-28-2008, 04:30 AM
I haven't heard them yet in Va guess conditions haven't been good enough.
N5MOA
07-28-2008, 12:56 PM
Heard them work everyone but me the other night. It would seem there might be better antennas for 20m. My inverted v does have it's drawbacks.
Be interested to know what frequencies they've been using
Haven't been able to find 'em from Fairbanks yet...
What bands/what frequencies and what modes have they been heard
on?
What times Zulu???
I heard 'em on 3920 kHz a little while ago (1800Z) talking with some of the
guys around the area here...So that's one place anyway. Signal was good.
Dang it, I'm at work and can't get to the radio to try 'em.
:(