[CTSARA] SPECIAL EVENT 1BCG

Fri Dec 2 10:40:01 EST 2016

This was posted in ARRL bulletin Dec 1.  I have contacted  (email) Clark
Burgard N1BCG for more information such as where  they are working from, and
if they need any more assistance.  -Jonny, AB1HI

Also look at http://www.internetwork.com/radio/n1bcg/

BULLETIN:  go to ARRL.ORG for the picture. 
Transatlantic Reception Anniversary Special Event Set for December 11
(Sunday) 
An Amateur Radio special event on December 11 will commemorate the 95th
anniversary of the first transatlantic shortwave reception between
Greenwich, Connecticut, and Scotland. A school near the original site is
hosting the event. ARRL, the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), and the
Radio Club of America (RCA), are partnering in sponsoring the activity. The
Greenwich Historical Society will also participate.
On December 11, 1921, reception in Ardrossan, Scotland, of a radio signal
transmitted from the official test station of Minton Cronkhite, 1BCG, in a
small shack on the corner of Clapboard Ridge Road and North Street in
Greenwich, helped to usher in the age of global communication. The special
event will use N1BCG, the call sign of Clark Burgard of Greenwich, who
obtained that call sign to commemorate this bit of radio history. Burgard
was instrumental in making arrangements for the event.
The N1BCG special event will begin on Sunday, December 11, at 1200 and
conclude at 0300 UTC on December 12. It will include an attempt at a two-way
contact between N1BCG and GB2ZE, operated by Jason O'Neill, GM7VSB, in
Ardrossan.

The 1BCG 1 kW CW transmitter.
Reception in Scotland of the 1BCG signal was part of the second series of
ARRL transatlantic tests. For the receiving end, the ARRL Board had selected
a receiver designed by Paul Godley, 2ZE, and Godley traveled to the UK to
oversee that end of the circuit. Joining Godley in a field in Ardrossan,
southwest of Glasgow, was Marconi Company District Inspector D.E. Pearson.
As the QST article, "The Transatlantic Tests" (QST Dec. 2014) by Michael
Marinaro, WN1M, recounted, "The two attempted to keep out of the driving
wind and rain by sheltering themselves -- and their equipment -- in a tent.
This rough listening post was comprised of a (superheterodyne and
regenerative) receiver, a 1,300-foot Beverage antenna suspended 12 feet
above ground, batteries, and auxiliary equipment."
January 1922 QST trumpeted the success of the transatlantic tests.
On the morning of December 10, CW signals of 1BCG, which had been designed
and constructed by Radio Club of America members -- were solidly copied on
230 to 235 meters (about 1.3 MHz). They were the only signals heard that
morning in Ardrossan. By the end of the test, eight spark and 18 CW stations
had been heard as well.
N1BCG operation will be on AM on 75 and 40 meters; CW and SSB on 40 meters,
CW on 30 meters, and CW and SSB on 20 and 17 meters.
Approximate frequencies are 3.880 (AM), 7.290 (AM), 7.235 (SSB), 7040 (CW),
10.112 (CW), 14.280 (SSB), 14.040 (CW), 18.125 (SSB), and 18.088 MHz CW.

Regards,

AB1HI
Jonny
Jonathan  S. Shapiro

Greenwich CT 06830

Home: 203-661-0312
office: 203-661-0398
Fax: 203-661-1115
Cell: 203-273-1525
 Email: jon at giciman.com
-----Original Message-----
From: CTSARA [mailto:ctsara-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jon
Perelstein
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2016 7:13 AM
To: Stamford Amateur Radio Association
Subject: [CTSARA] Reminder: December Meeting (Dec 1)

Our December meeting will be held on Thursday Dec 1 at 8pm, Stamford
Government Center, 6th floor safety training room.  We will be building a
G5RV 80-6 meter antenna (actually, to be technical, a ZS6BKW, which is an
updated version of the G5RV).

Pizza at 6:15pm at John the Baker, 30 Long Ridge Road in Bulls Head.

73
Jon, AI1V
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