[CW] SAQ

[Jan Alsin]

Hello Ken,
interesting to hear that you have been there in person! I suppose you 
know that Bengt Dagås passed away recently.
I have been a member of the "Association Alexander" for many years now. 
I was born in Varberg, and we had free sight towards the antennas when I 
was young, until they built a house in the sightline. My old mother was 
of the firm opinion that the antennas attracted the lightnings, and of 
course we could see the lightnings hit the antennas during the autumn 
thunderstorms. (On the other hand, she also thought that black cats 
attracted the lightnings...)
The antenna towers are imposing, I have never been allowed to climd any 
of them! I hope that you will be able to hear SAQ sometime in the 
future! There will be a transmission on the Alexanderson Day, 28th of June.

73
Jan
sm6ywu




Ken Brown skrev:
> Hi Jan,
>
>      Thank you so much for posting that. In 1998 Bengt Dagas (in the 
> video) gave Mary K6FK and I a personal tour of the whole SAQ facility. 
> Absolutely fantastic. Bengt could not turn on the Alexanderson 
> alternator for us, but he did show us the entire procedure of turning on 
> every water pump (for liquid rheostats) oil pump (lubrication), air pump 
> (to blow out arcs in keying relays) necessary to get SAQ 17.2 kilocycles 
> on the air. The control panel is full of relays and knife switches and 
> is made of marble, painted black, as was common practice for big 
> electrical control panels in those days. (there are many more examples 
> of marble control panels in the radio museum in Motala, some not painted 
> so natural marble is visible)
>      Bengt took us out to the base of one of the towers. He said I was 
> welcome to climb one. I did not even make it up to the point where the 
> four leg sections join together. At that point I was probably higher 
> than I have ever climbed on any tower, probably about 80 feet.
>      I still have never heard SAQ on the air, except on files from the 
> internet. Someday.....
>
> Ken N6KB
>
>
> Jan Alsin wrote:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>> was surfing around on the internet this beautiful sunday morning, when i 
>> found this  link to a presentation of the Grimeton radio station, SAQ. 
>> It is in Swedish, but the pictures are telling a lot for themselves.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G-siA79K4E&feature=related
>>
>> 73
>> SM6YWU
>> Jan
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