The (K1T) Special Event Station count down to July 23, 2017

Tonight the schedule had to go by the wayside - will be back to normal tomorrow. Just worked my FIRST EVER 2m AM contact, using my Heathkit Twoer to work WG7X on his Icom IC-706 - publishing the short video to YouTube right now.

Then right after that, I worked our club museum station on 40m CW, station W7OS (part of W7DK club) - the museum was running a Heathkit AR-3 receiver and Heathkit AT-1 transmitter - and OF COURSE WE WERE WORKING SPLIT!!! I was on 7.114 and he was on 7.014 - just like the old days. GREAT signals both ways. We're going to work a Museum Demo QSO on Saturday morning 10:00 AM (give or take) PDT - so that folks in the clubhouse can hear what a CW station might have sounded like back in 1955 or so - all as part of the K1T celebration of Heathkit.

So - yes busy night. Going to upload the video shortly with the 2m AM QSO (Geez - too bad it's a dead mode on that band! The audio was excellent!! You can even hear his chair squeak when he moves!!). If more folks would give it some thought, it would be really fun to have a slew of Twoers and other 2m AM rigs alight the airwaves once again...

I was born in 1961 - the year 2m AM was probably at or near its peak - and only tonight had my first QSO, on a radio I restored years ago but have never used until today!

Video link shortly

Dave
W7UUU/K1T

 

So here's the video/audio of my first-ever 2m AM QSO on a Heathkit Twoer!! This was really fun - I wish I could just call CQ any old time and have a local QSO like this... sigh.

Contact is with fellow long-time W7DK Radio Club of Tacoma Member @WG7X , Gary, in "Beautiful downtown Lakewood Waaaaaarrrrrssssshhhhhington"

Dave
W7UUU

 

Thanks Pat - glad to have you in the log for CW now as well as SSB. It will show up in LoTW and QRZ tomorrow (I did my daily uploads before our contact).

Let's just hope the bands improve - not great today. Yesterday was a lot better

Dave
W7UUU/K1T

 

Thanks for the heads up - I have NO IDEA how my coordinates got so whacked out of line. I've made the correction. Of course, it's not exactly where my house is - I keep that private - but at least a heck of a lot closer than had been indicated.

Maybe folks can now point their Yagi antennas the right way LOL!!

And yes - the log book seems to have sorted itself out.

Dave
W7UUU

 

7210 LSB at the moment - CW has largely been a bust (i.e., waste of time )

Of course, SSB is largely a bust too - but less so. Damn I wish there was better conditions for this

Dave
W7UUU

 

Super. I will be hitting the DX-20 on 7114 (ONLY 7114 tonight - I have a sked in the AM on that frequency and don't want to mess anything up) at 10:00 PM PDT - kinda late but maybe 40 will be better "in these here parts" by then. So 0500 UTC - 7114 CW, slow speed (hand key) - calling CQ K1T

Conditions around here are brutal. No propagation at all much of the time.

Dave
W7UUU/K1T