[JMS] W1HRX on the AWA AM QSO party

[Edward Gable]

Hello Dennis:  I concur, the AWA AM QSO Party was a real hoot.  It was
a real pleasure to have you, and ur big signal, adding to the weekend's
success and to hear the long silent W1HRX on-the-air.  I, too, think the
6AQ5 rig was a memorable QSO.  I was about 25 feet away from the
Millen HRO receiver when the chap announced what he was running.  Gee,
it sounded like at least TWO 6AQ5's - hihi

I want to thank all involved for making the event such a "happening."
Certainly Gary, WA4IAM for his planning efforts and all of the troops at
the AWA Museum and guest operators Dave KA2J and Bob N2EVG.

QSL W2AN per QRZ.com and let's plan on doing it again next year.

Warm regards,  73

Ed Gable  w2an/k2mp
Curator, AWA Museum
www.antiquewireless.org


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Petrich" <dpetrich at WAVECREST.com>
To: "'The James Millen Society Members Email Reflector'" 
<james_millen_society at mailman.qth.net>
Cc: "Dennis Petrich" <dpetrich at WAVECREST.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: [JMS] W1HRX on the AWA AM QSO party


> Hello all,
>
> Well, to say the least, being able to use James Millen's, W1HRX, call last
> weekend during the AWA AM QSO party was an unbelievable honor and one heck
> of a lot of fun.
>
> This was my first time to do some serious contest style AM work with my
> James Millen 500w transmitter featured in ER and the JMS web site.  The
> transmitter didn't miss a beat putting out over 250w of plate modulated AM
> for over 4 hours...  The 90700 VFO didn't budge during the whole 4 hours
> because I would check zero-beat every now and then on W2AN's rock bound
> signal and I never had to tweak it...
>
> Part of the fun that night was hooking up with Dave operating W2AN at the
> AWA museum running James Millen's vintage 1939 transmitter.  Dave and I 
> tag
> teamed to give dual Flagship points to over 60 stations during the 
> evening.
>
> The HRO-5RA1 I was using is a great receiver but it wasn't designed to 
> deal
> with AM pileups and SSB interference the likes of what was going on that
> evening, so after 4 hours of working many low power 25w AM stations 
> Saturday
> night my brain went to mush.... If you had a 100w or more signal copy was
> made much easier due to the adjoining QRM.
>
> I was especially excited to work one station that was running 6w from a 
> 6AQ5
> being modulated by 6AQ5's; the band was in great shape making 
> communications
> with low power signals easy.
>
> W1HRX managed to work 82 stations on 75m, 10 stations on 40m and 18 
> stations
> on 20m including HH2JR in Haiti.  I would have had a higher total on 40m 
> and
> 20m if some local QRN had not wiped out those two bands for almost 3 hours
> on Sunday.
>
> I hope all of you who were able to work W1HRX last weekend but if not
> there's always next year....
>
> 73's, Dennis k0eoo
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