Night of Nights XI‏

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[UDXF] Night of Nights XI‏
From:    udxf@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Hugh Stegman (hugh2you@att.net)
Sent:    Mon 7/12/10 7:47 PM
To:    UDXF@yahoogroups.com

Just heard KPH testing on all freqs.
 
This year's frequencies are as follows:
 
KPH
Xmit   426, 500, 4247.0, 6477.5, 8642.0, 12808.5, 17016.8, 22477.5
Rcv   500; 4184.0, 6276.0, 8368.0, 12552.0, 16736.0, 22280.5 (C3)
 
KSM
Xmit   426, 500, 6474, 8438.3 and 12993
Rcv   500; 4184.0, 6276.0, 8368.0, 12552.0, 16736.0, 22280.5 (C3)
 
KFS
Xmit   12695.5, 17026.0
Rcv   4184.0, 6276.0, 8368.0, 12552.0, 16736.0, 22280.5 (C3)
 
WLO
Xmit   2055.5, 4343.0, 8658.0, 12992.0 and 16968.5
Rcv   500; 8368
 
NMC (USCG CAMSPAC Pt. Reyes))
Xmit   448, 472, 500, 6383.0, 8574.0 and 17220.5
Rcv   4184.0, 6276.0, 8368.0, 12552.0, 16736.0, 22280.5 (C3)
 
NMN (USCG CAMSLANT Chesapeake)
Xmit   8471.0, 12718.5 and 16976
Rcv   4184.0, 6276.0, 8368.0, 12552.0, 16736.0, 22280.5 (C3)
 
K6KPH
Simplex   3550, 7050 and 14050 (taking reports)
 
All CW Morse telegraphy, of course.
 
-hugh
 

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It was VERY busy at the KPH / KSM / KFS transmitter site last night!  The KPH 6 meg RCA went BANG! a couple times.  The 1941 vintage PW-15 transmitter on 12 megs for KFS made some blue fire (it was actually my fault though) which had to be set straight before start time. It's a 15KW transmitter, all push-pull, throttled back to 5 KW as licensed, so it was happily running away making a 5KW fire, no overloads, just lots of fire. Found the problem rather quickly and fixed that easily.   The 40m ham band converted 50's vintage RCA was almost a no-go if not for some heroics for a couple hours of laying in an oily cabinet making repairs just up to 30 minutes ahead of start time.  As a backup to the 40m vintage transmitter, we had a Henry on 40m ready to go with clipleads to the open wire lines in the building.  But, the old RCA held on all night, so the Henry TX wasn't needed.

Got to my room around 2AM this morning. I'm just waking up now, and have to head back to the transmitter site to help transmitter supervisor un-do everything and put it all back for normal KSM operations today.  Will probably be back home tomorrow sometime.  Full report coming soon.

73, TS