[MRCA] CHristmas Eve DX Opportunity

[Al Klase]

Gang,

As you probably know the traditional Christmas Eve transmission from The 
Alexanderson alternator, SAQ, in Sweden has been cancelled.  Here is an 
easier challenge.

*Fessenden Commemorative Broadcast on 486 kHz *

       Brian Justin, WA1ZMS, of Forest, Virginia, will once again 
transmit a program in AM mode on 486 kHz, utilizing his Part 5 
Experimental Service license WI2XLQ, to commemorate the Christmas Eve 
1906 broadcast of voice and music by inventor Reginald Fessenden. Justin 
plans to transmit for 24 hours or more, starting at around 1800 UTC 
(noon CST) on December 24. Fessenden reportedly repeated his broadcast 
on week later, but it is not known at this writing whether Brian plans 
to do likewise.
       Fessenden was working with an Alexanderson alternator of early 
design. the output of which was modulated with a large carbon 
microphone, on frequencies around 75-80 kHz. His Brant Rock, 
Massachusetts station BO had already been copied in Scotland while 
conducting voice tests earlier in the month.
      Unlike Lee de Forest's work a few years later, Fessenden's focus 
in 1906 was on ship-to-shore and transoceanic communication, which he 
held to be a more important use of wireless than broadcasting. The lack 
of contemporary documentation has led some to dispute his later 
recollections of the event, but Westinghouse VP Sam Kintner accepted the 
claim, as does modern radio scientist Jack Belrose.

Sounds like he's running 150-watts AM. Details Here 
<https://swling.com/blog/2019/12/wi2xlq-brian-justins-annual-longwave-broadcast/>.

Spin up those BC-348's!

Merry Christmas
Al

-- 
Al Klase – N3FRQ
Jersey City, NJ
http://www.skywaves.ar88.net/

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