[3830] Transatlantic QP G6XX(G4FAL) HP

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                    RCA Transatlantic QSO Party - 2021

Call: G6XX
Operator(s): G4FAL
Station: G4FAL

Class: Single Op HP
QTH: IO93EJ
Operating Time (hrs): 4

Summary:
 Band  CW Qs  Ph Qs
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  160:    3      
   80:    1      
   40:    9      
   20:   19     5
   15:           
   10:           
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Total:   32     5  Total Score = 53

Club: RSGB Contest Club

Comments:

I have only included Transatlantic QSOs in the table above. These were with the
USA, Canada, Puerto Rico and Martinique. Best DX was AB in Canada and CA in the
USA - both on 20m. Conditions were pretty poor and there was contest activity in
Europe which made the bands quite busy. Nonetheless, I was pleased to make 3
QSOs with NA stations on 160m CW - about as near to the 1BCD to Paul Godley
transmission as is possible.

It was disappointing that most of the North American activity on 40m and 80m was
in the General allocation (as per the QSO party rules) and on phone - so no
transatlantic QSOs were made on 80m or 40m with TQP participants.

I did work W2RCA on 20m CW and Phone but wasn't able to work them on the low
bands and they did not appear to be QRV when there was propagation later in the
event.

The callsign 6XX was held by the Radio Society of Great Britain in the 1920s and
was used in the fourth Transatlantic Tests with a special permit to use an input
power of 1kW.

The licence holder on behalf of RSGB was Philip Coursey who was a prominent
member of the amateur radio fraternity, he held the pre-WWI call sign GYX, later
operating as 2JK and G5AT. An early member of The Wireless Society of London and
its successor organisation, the Radio Society of Great Britain, he joined the
Committee in 1920 and became Honorary Secretary in 1924. He was a driving force
behind the "Transatlantic Tests" that saw the first communication
between radio amateurs in the United Kingdom and the United States during the
years 1921 - 1926. Coursey was the London liaison for Godley on his visit to
England and Scotland in 1921.

>From 22 December 1923 to 10 January 1924 the RSGB station 6XX was established at
Shepherd’s Bush in London, at the premises of the Dubilier Condenser Company.
This was before the prefix “G” was added to callsigns in England, so G-6XX
was used to designate British nationality. The signals from the station were
reported by about 40 US and Canadian Radio Amateurs and also aboard the ship
Bowdoin in the Arctic.

>From Wireless World, May 7th 1924: During the Test, transmission reports were
received every third day via the Marconi Wireless Service through Carnarvon,
setting out the signals which were heard. Supplementary reports were also
received through NIXW, via Jack Partridge, G2KF and other British stations,
using the shorter wavelengths in the neighbourhood of 100 metres. These reports
merely indicated what stations had been received, without giving any indication
of how often they had been heard, or on which nights. The reports as received
day by day were retransmitted by G6XX each night for the information of those
who were taking part in the Tests.


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