[SFDXA] From Bob Heil...

[Bill]

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Hello Everyone....

If you missed the Ham Nation broadcast last evening, you will want to watch the replay.   Put Ham Nation into Google.   The featured guest was Tom Gallagher the new CEO at the ARRL.  Tom is a hams ham and as you will experience, he is one great person to head up the new direction (finally) for the ARRL and especially AM.   You will not believe hearing Tom tell the world how much he loves and operates AM!   You never have heard that from the ARRL before.   Quite the opposite.  Check out last nights show.

The show focus was this Special Event sunday celebrating the 95th Anniversary of the first transatlantic shortwave reception between Greenwich, Ct and Scotland.   Here is the text that Tom just sent and I want to share it will all of my AM friends.   I return to Pleasant Hope Saturday so will be on Sunday afternoon after Sarah and I return from our church service.  I look forward to catching up next week on Mokam.... have missed you guys..
BOB HEIL, K9EID

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> From: "Gallagher, Tom, NY2RF" <tgallagher at arrl.org>
> Subject: Thanks
> Date: December 8, 2016 12:11:19 PM CST
> To: Bob Heil <bob at heilsound.com>
> Cc: "Duffy, Tim K3LR" <k3lr at k3lr.com>, Steve Thomas <steve.thomas at rsgb.org.uk>
>
> Bob: thanks for having me. I appreciate it. Here’s an advance from today’s ARRL letter on the event. Can you fwd to Gordon and anybody else who you think ought to have it.
> Kindest personal regards, Tom
>
> From tomorrow’s ARRL Weekly Letter (advance text)
> Reminder: December 11 Special Event will Commemorate Transatlantic Reception Anniversary
> An Amateur Radio special event on December 11 will commemorate the 95th anniversary of the first transatlantic shortwave reception betweenGreenwich, Connecticut, and Ardrossan, Scotland. ARRL, the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), and the Radio Club of America (RCA), are partnering in sponsoring the activity. The Greenwich Historical Society will also participate.
>
> ARRL's "Successful Overseas Listener" Paul Godley, 2ZE, returned to the US "a conquering hero," QST said in 1922.
> On December 11, 1921, a radio signal transmitted from the location of 1BCG in Connecticut, was heard in Scotland by Paul Godley, 2ZE, during the second ARRL transatlantic tests. The special event will use N1BCG, the call sign of Clark Burgard of Greenwich, a radio history buff who was instrumental in making arrangements for the event.
> The N1BCG special event, which will be set up at a school near the original 1BCG site, will begin on Sunday, December 11, at 1200 and conclude at 0300 UTC on December 12. Operation will be on AM on 75 and 40 meters; CW and SSB on 40 meters, CW on 30 meters, and CW and SSB on 20 and 17 meters. Approximate frequencies are 3.880 (AM), 7.290 (AM), 7.235 (SSB), 7040 (CW), 10.112 (CW), 14.280 (SSB), 14.040 (CW), 18.125 (SSB), and 18.088 MHz CW.
> The event will include an attempt at a two-way contact between N1BCG and GB2ZE in Ardrossan.
>
> Tom Gallagher – NY2RF
> Chief Executive Officer
> ARRL Headquarters
> ARRL - The national association for Amateur Radio™
> 860 594 0404 cell 704 907 7158
> tgallagher at arrl.org