[Lf] [Lowfer] SAQ on 17.2KHz New Year's Day (fwd)

[Frank Gentges]

LFers,

Message says it all.

Frank


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 21:25:48 -0500
From: Al Klase <skywaves at bw.webex.net>
To: Boatanchors <boatanchors at theporch.com>, Lowfer <lowfer at qth.net>,
    AWA <antiquewirelessassociation at egroups.com>,
    Premium RX <Premium-Rx at kahuna.sdsu.edu>
Subject: [Lowfer] SAQ on 17.2KHz New Year's Day

The last remaining 200KW Alexanderson alternator, at radio
station SAQ in Grimeton, Sweden will be on the air January
1st and 2nd to celebrate the station's 75th anniversary and
the beginning of the year 2000.  The CW transmissions are
scheduled for 1200 UTC on 1 Jan 2000 and 06:00 UTC on 2 Jan
2000.  The frequency will be 17.2KHz.

Radio Station Grimeton is being preserved as an historical
site, and is (very) occasionally put on the air to celebrate
special events.  See http://www.telemuseum.se/grimeton/ for
more information.

The last time I was aware of SAQ being on the air was May
28th, 1998.  That was pretty well into the Summer
electrical-storm season and I was just barely able to hear
them at my Western, NJ QTH using a 40" shielded loop, a
Watkins Johnson 357 receiver, and DSP software on the PC. 
No one else in the US reported hearing them.  This time we
get a shot at both a daytime and a nighttime path in the
dead of Winter.  It won't get any better than this, so
grease up the antennas and be ready to listen New Year's
morning.


73,
Al
-- 
Al Klase - N3FRQ
skywaves at bw.webex.net
Flemington, NJ 08822
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