[PPRAANet] Adaman Club and PPRAA

[Jim Bishop]

All,

  I nominate Steve.

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Subject: Re: [PPRAANet] Adaman Club and PPRAA

Thanks for sharing, a very interesting article.  I was just thinking about
Operators going up with AdAmAn.

On Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 16:10 K3ILC <je_madsen at comcast.net> wrote:

> I found part of an interesting article referencing the Pikes Peak
> Amateur Radio Association - PPARA (that was the predecessor of PPRAA,
> pre-WWII) and the Adaman club from Dec 30, 1936. Unfortunately only part
> of the article is readable.
>
> It states that the PPARA would be assisting staying in touch with the
> Adaman club.
>     "... touch with the AdAmAn party by shortwave radio will be Charles
> Eining of station W9YYO" (Colorado used to be in the 9th call district)
> "and Charles Freeman, both of Colorado Springs.
>     Eining and Freeman, members of the Pikes Peak Amateur Radio
> Association, will leave Manitou Springs at noon for the summit of the
> peak.  Messages sent out by the two will be received here by Colorado
> Springs members of the association.
>     Eining and Freeman said last night that that (sic) would attempt to
> contact amateur stations with which they have listeningschedules in
> Europe, Asia, and many cities in the United States.
>    The radio party's expedition has been arranged under the direction of
> Charles M. Stockdale, president of the association.  The radio operators
> will use the associations call W9OKY in its broadcasting tomorrow ..."
>
> and from Jan 1, 1937:
>
> "Short Wave Round World.  The ceremonies of the summit were broadcast by
> amateur operators, the description being set out in experimental work on
> extremely short wave lengths.  The operators were hoping to establish a
> world record for distance with five-meter transmission.  The messages
> were received clearly in Colorado Springs, but it was not known last
> night how far they went in their world girdling (sic) journey.  The
> operators were Charles Eining and Charles Freeman, both of Colorado
> Springs and members of the Pikes Peak Amateur Radio Association, which
> sponsored the broadcast.  The operators used the association call K9OKY
> (sic), in their broadcasting".
>
> It would be interesting to know how they packed the equipment and what
> equipment they used.  There was another article that the Cog Railway
> tried to make it's way up the mountain for New Year.s but it didn't, due
> to huge snow drifts and problems with their snow plow.
> I think these articles are out of The Gazette newspaper.
>
> 73 and have a great new year
> Jim K3ILC
> Historian
> PPRAA (not PPARA)
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