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

[paul buresh]

Greetings all:

Did anyone pick this up, I know several who listened and heard no broadcast.

thanks.

Paul Buresh






On Sun, Dec 23, 2018 at 10:42 AM Alex Magoun <a.b.magoun at ieee.org> wrote:

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> 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/.
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> Happy holidays, Alex
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