Last night's code word was "EDEN" If you got it off the web instead of off
the air, you have my pity.
Next run starts at 1700Z Christmas day--250uW on 3545.5 KHz--until 1400Z
Dec 26.
Wow! Great response last night! The new frequency at 3545.5 KHz combined
with a lot of people home for the holiday spending some quality 'shack
time' netted 55 reports or 4583 reports per watt. 1 mW netted 8,000
reports per watt and 500uW produced 14,000 reports per watt. I'm hoping
that today's run at 250uW will yield 22,000 reports per watt at least. 14
states and one Canadian province reported in.
I try to respond to every report I receive and last night produced a lot of
typing. Don't expect the beacon to run QROp again anytime soon ;-)
W5UN in Texas holds the raw distance record now at 1286 miles or 107,200
miles per watt--Thanks Dave, I hope you copy at 250uW tonight.
On a real downer note, someone, who should have known better, published the
superduper double secret classified covert code word. Not cool. Please,
use your head or in the words of Dave Benson (who stole it from a movie I
think) "use the force Luke."
Here's some super fascinating and intriguing operational notes. You mave
have noticed that the K1 drifts a little bit. It is not a crystal derived
VFO, it's the tried and true L-C variety. The VFO circuit itself is
actually quite stable but as the case expands and contracts due to
temperature, it moves the speaker which in turn, couples its magnet to some
inductors in the circuit. As a result the frequency varies +/- about 40 Hz
depending on how the temperature fluctuates in my shack. Keep that in mind
as you hunt it down today for the "250uW Run for the Riches." I do try to
ride herd on it but you can twiddle your knob if I get lazy.
Rig breakdown was: 19 Yaesu, 10 Icom, 7 Elecraft, 5 Ten Tec, 4 Kenwood and
one each for Index Labs, Drake and a MultiPIG+
Antenna breakdown was 12 Beverages, 8 Dipoles, 7 Loops, 5 Vertical and
Vertical arrays, 4 inverted Vees. 3 Slopers, 2 turtle doves and a partridge
in a pear tree, 2 four squares, 2 doublets, 1 each for--inverted L, Zepp,
Windom and wire, whew...
THE SUMMARY in order of receipt: (if I made a typo, I apologize in advance.
Suck it up, don't send me a note)
Call, Name State/prov Grid Square RST Details
K3ESE LLOYD MD FM19 589 MULTIPIG+/LOOP
W4ZV BILL NC EM95 339 ORION/BEV
N4ZR PETE NC FM19 MARK V/LAZY VEE
VE3MGY BRIAN ON FN03 539 756/DELTA LOOP
W1USN MIKE MA FN42 539 K2/SLOPER
N1AXX MIKE MA FN42 339 INDEX LABS QRP+/INV VEE
K1VP ED NH --- 559 ARGO V/DIPOLE
KM1Z FRAN VT FN34 339 TS450/HORZ LOOP
WA4PGM KYLE VA FM07 539 1000MP/PENNANT
K3SV BILL PA FN10 519 1000D/4-SQUARE
W2AGN JOHN NJ FM29 599 K2/HORZ LOOP
KC3M JACK PA ---- 579
W3NF LLOYD MD FM19 599 TS870/SLOPER
N1RX BRUCE NH FN33 549 K2/160M DIPOLE
WI5A LARRY OH EN70 539 1000MP/BEV
VE3CSK BILL ON EN93 569 746PRO/BEV
KR8Z JACK WV EM99 449 FT920/ HORZ LOOP
K8DD HANK MI EN82
AK0B STAN MO EM48 SIGNAL IN NOISE, NO EDEN
K8BHZ BRIAN MI EN66 329 FT840/6-EL PHASED VERT
K4ZW KEN VA FM18 529 1000MP/BEV
N9NE TODD WI EN54 559 K2/DOUBLET
WB4X BRENT NC FM06 S5 K2/HUSTLER 6BTV
W0UCE JACK NC FM05 439 756PRO/BEV ARRAY
K3JT TERRY WV EM99 449 706MIIG/160 M DIPOLE
N1BUG PAUL ME FN55 579 TS450/INV VEE
W3GH BOB PA FN00 509 FT100D/160 M DIPOLE
N3BJ ALAN VA FM07 339 K2/INV VEE
N3CXV BILL MD FM18 429 756PRO/SONY ACTIVE VERT
K8ND JEFF OH EN80 339 1000MP/INV L
AA1K JON DE FM29 1000MP/INV VEE
NA8M JOHN MI EN72 529 K2/CF ZEPP
W4HJ A.C. VA FM17 449 OMNI 6/DIPOLE
K3JJG ED PA ---- S5 DRAKE R4C/BEV
W4PK SAM VA FM07 339 756PRO/BEV
KR2Q DOUG NJ FN20 519 TS940/WIRE
W5GFR GORDON WV EM98 599 1000MP/LOOP
VE3ZI ROGER ON ---- 449 756/BEV
NX4D DOUG FL EL98 519 1000MP/LOOP
W4AG STAN NC FM06 339 756PRO/4-SQUARE
KT3Y PHIL VA FM18 319 TS950/BEV
W2ED ED NY FN30 519 ORION/DOUBLET
K8AC FLOYD NC FM05 439 IC781/K9AY
WA2UUK HARV NY FN12 539 FT100D/DIPOLE
N8ME MARK OH EM89 S4 746PRO/WINDOM
W5UN DAVE TX EM23 229 1000D/BEV
W1LW WALTER CT FN31 539 1000MKV/INV VEE
N2WK WAYNE NY FN03 549 SLOPER
WD5R MARLENE AR EM45 339 BEVERAGE
N2NC JOHN NJ FN20 529 1000MP/DIPOLE
N4OO INK FL EM70 229 1000MP/BEV
N4XD RON NC FM05 ---- ORION/BEV
W3GH BOB PA FN00 519 1000D/DIPOLE
K8DO DENNIS MI EN73 549 1000MP/VERT ARRAY
W8UVZ GEORGE MI EN72 559 1000D/PHASED VERT
73,
N2XE
John Ceccherelli
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