[Boatanchors] AWA 1929 QSO Party

[Carl]

Im not a member but I'll be on 80M with PP 211's and a 1931 Scott 
Allwave 12 that I rescued the main chassis from the town dump a few 
years ago. Added a BFO and built a regulated DC supply for the filaments 
and B+.  Worked 50 DX stations in the ARRL DX contest in Feb and will 
try it again in CQWW CW. The TX runs 100W out and chirps less than a 
DX-100 and drifts less than an Eico 753!

Carl
KM1H


I might build another for 40 to go with a FB-7
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <whitebear1122 at comcast.net>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 1:37 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] AWA 1929 QSO Party




The AWA Board of Directors has approved a petition to open the AWA 
contests and QSO Parties to all hams, members and non-members. I and 
others have been asking for the 29 QSO Party to be opened up for a few 
years. This year Tim W1GIG was able to convince the board. Since I've 
become the administrator of the 29 QSO Party, I've been scoring and 
publishing ALL hams participating, both members and non-members. No one 
was turned away. Now I can do it and not get officially yelled at.



The rules and a logsheet pdf are located on the AWA website. Just follow 
the front page hot link to the 29 QSO party rules and full page 
logsheet. http://www.antiquewireless.org/



I have been operating this QSO Party for maybe 4 or 5 years now. I 
joined the AWA just to operate this QSO Party, and discovered that the 
AWA is alot more about ham radio than I thought. N9OO had been trying to 
get me to join for years but I didn't want to join some ole tv and 
broadcast radio club. Turns out that the founders of the AWA were hams, 
and the early days of the AWA was all about spark, wireless radio, and 
early ham radio. Since then it's expanded its wireless theme to cover 
TV, FM, AM. They publish a quarterly journal appropriately called AWA 
Journal.. hi hi Franky I find every issue to a great read, yes even 
including the early tv and radio discussions are facinating, 
particularly the first hand accounts and stories of famous people like 
Atwater Kent, Edwin Armstrong, Philo Farnsworth, etc..



I'll be in the QSO Party running a MOPA on 80 meters and a Colpitts 
oscillator on 40 meters. The MOPA is a Hartley oscillator using a type 
27 tube driving a pair of 27's in parallel. I can squeeze about 9 watts 
out with some chirp. If I back off the loading just a tad, the signal 
clears up and takes on an odd hollow sound. The Colpitts is a push-pull 
pair of type 10's for 40 meters. The signal quality is pretty darn good.



I would be great if you could build a tx and operate the QSO Party. It 
maybe unlike any event you've ever operated! If you can't operate, then 
you might listen in and hear all the peanut whistle transmitters 
chirping, whooping, buzzing, howling. It is what the bands sounded like 
in 1929.



73, Scott WA9WFA


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