[NJARC] Tune in Christmas Eve at not one, but two frequencies!

[Alex Magoun]

>From the American Radio Relay League, via MRHS:

"As he's done in years past, Brian Justin, WA1ZMS, of Forest, Virginia,
will commemorate what may have been the first radio broadcast to include
speech and music by experimenter Reginald Fessenden on Christmas Eve 1906.
Justin will fire up his vintage-style transmitter operating on 486 kHz
under Experimental license WI2XLQ to mark the 112th anniversary of
Fessenden's accomplishment. Justin will begin his transmission on December
24 at 1700 UTC and continue until December 26 at 1659 UTC. . . .  For his
transmitter in 1906, Fessenden used an ac alternator modulated by placing
carbon microphones in series with the antenna feed line. Justin's homebuilt
station is slightly more modern, based on a 1921 vacuum-tube master
oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) design, using a UV-202 tube. The
transmitter employs Heising AM modulation, developed by Raymond Heising
during World War I.  Send listener reports directly to Brian Justin,
WA1ZMS."

In addition, "Grimeton Radio/SAQ will once again fire up the Alexanderson
Alternator and make a special broadcast on their VLF frequency of 17.2 kc
(yes, you read that correctly! Kilocycles!) at 0800 GMT on December 24,
2018."

Regarding NORAD's Santa tracking and communications, say no go:
https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/norad-santa-tracking.303883/.

Happy holidays, Alex
~~~
Alexander B. Magoun, Ph.D., Outreach Historian
IEEE History Center
Samuel C. Williams Library 3rd Floor
Stevens Institute of Technology
1 Castle Point Terrace
Hoboken NJ 07030-5991
USA

+1 732-981-3414
a.b.magoun at ieee.org
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www.ieee.org/history_center

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