[QCWA] WW2 Field Day Station

[George Roach]

Spent quite a bit of time looking for W1HIS on 80 & 40 but not a peep ?

Did anyone work them......?



At 03:39 PM 6/24/05, you wrote:
>For  QCWAers and others.  This weekend is Amateur Radio Field Day. The 
>bands will be jammed with stations operating under portable conditions 
>with emergency power. Of special interest is a WW2 Military Vintage Field 
>Day Station.  Information relayed from another reflector.
>73,
>Pete, KZ1Z
>--------------------------------
>
>Please stop; do not send a report to the Official Observer Corps; but work
>the station and send a spot to the packet cluster when you hear the slightly
>chirpy CW signals from W1HIS on 80 and 40 meters during Field Day.  W1HIS
>will be a reconstituted World War II vintage field wireless station with
>100% WW II (June 1944) vintage radios and accessories, including two
>Wireless Sets No. 19, a WS#18, WS#38, a human-powered and a gasoline-fueled
>Mark V generator.  NO transistors, NO digital electronics, NO coax-fed
>antennas, NO ferrite baluns, not even a computer for logging.  Even the
>operators will be WW II vintage (born in 1943).  QTH: Cove Island Park, Long
>Island Sound, City of Stamford, CT.  Set up by Headquarters Company, 1st
>Canadian Parachute Battalion (Reenacted) to honor the veterans and educate
>the public.
>
>Tnx.  -Chuck, W1HIS
>
>
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