[Milsurplus] Alexanderson Transmission on Christmas Eve

[Richard Brunner]

The report is they had problems with the speed control.  It doesn't
sound serious.  I have 500 feet running through the woods, and usually
hear "something."  

Richard, AA1P

On Tue, 2011-12-27 at 10:35 -0500, Bill Cromwell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I understand the transmission didn't happen. I listened for them at the
> appropriate times (and even well before) with my RAK and a couple
> hundred feet of wire and loading/tuning coil, counterpoise, etc. My
> immediate conclusion was failure of my gear to hear them. I heard
> several things down there. While I had the RAK turned on for several
> hours ... something I guessed was an auroral flareup. When that happened
> I thought it would mask the transmission but that cleared away well
> before the scheduled (non)event.
> 
> I'll try again whenever I know they are going to try.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Bill  KU8H