I install 3-4 SSB's a year and check them with my Bird wattmeter. I
also use a shortwave reciever to see if I'm actually on the air. I used
to call WOM or WOO (I'm in N.J.) for a radio check, but I think they've
been off the air for years. Is there any station out there that would
accept an occasional radio check on a new installation? I try 4149 and
some other channels but often with no luck.

K.M

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I install 3-4 SSB's a year and check them with my Bird wattmeter. I
also use a shortwave reciever to see if I'm actually on the air. I used
to call WOM or WOO (I'm in N.J.) for a radio check, but I think they've
been off the air for years. Is there any station out there that would
accept an occasional radio check on a new installation? I try 4149 and
some other channels but often with no luck.

K.M

You can call USCG on 4125.0 Khz, and they "should" answer, or you could
find another Radio Shop, down the coast a ways, that has a HF Private
Coast Station License that would swap checks with you. Maybe on a
good propagation day you could get a Radio Check from one of the European
Coast Stations on one of the higher HF Frequencies, or maybe find one of
the Caribbiean Coast Stations. HF SSB is really a dieing breed, these
days, and most commercial guys have long switched to Imarsat or one of
the Private Sat based Networks, for long haul High Seas Comms. Up here
in the North Pacific, we have NOJ, and the Canadians out of Comox, BC.
and the NOAA/NWS HF sites that are on twice daily with Wx Input, and
Forecasts, from three different sites. We also have a pile of Private
Coast Stations that provide comms for the fishing fleet, and coastal
freighters.


Bruce in alaska who has run a 1Kw HF Private Coast Station...
for 40 years....
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Bruce in alaska who has run a 1Kw HF Private Coast Station...
for 40 years....


With propagation being in such poor conditions right now, I'm amazed he
gets any response at all. Hell, even 20 meters was nearly dead the other
day! What's your callsign, Bruce? I used to listen a lot and wonder if
you are in any of my old log books....


--
Larry W4CSC

Bruce,
Please drop me an email. I'd like to discuss somethings "off forum".

Steve
s/v Good Intentions

In article ,
Larry W4CSC wrote:

Bruce in Alaska wrote in news:bruceg-
:

Bruce in alaska who has run a 1Kw HF Private Coast Station...
for 40 years....


With propagation being in such poor conditions right now, I'm amazed he
gets any response at all. Hell, even 20 meters was nearly dead the other
day! What's your callsign, Bruce? I used to listen a lot and wonder if
you are in any of my old log books....

for years and years I operated KWO-70, and WDT-59 both were relicensed
when the place was sold a few years back......


Bruce in alaska
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Bruce in Alaska wrote in news:bruceg-
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for years and years I operated KWO-70, and WDT-59 both were relicensed
when the place was sold a few years back......


Bruce in alaska
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Thanks. I don't see them in the logs, probably because I listened mostly
to CW, not phone.

One time I relayed over the telephone for WOM. Helped a ship get its
condenser fixed in its steam plant. The ops at WOM sent me all kinds of
stuff, impressing the hell out of a 14-year-old ham....(c;

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.

In article ,
Larry W4CSC wrote:

Bruce in Alaska wrote in news:bruceg-
:

for years and years I operated KWO-70, and WDT-59 both were relicensed
when the place was sold a few years back......


Bruce in alaska
--


Thanks. I don't see them in the logs, probably because I listened mostly
to CW, not phone.

One time I relayed over the telephone for WOM. Helped a ship get its
condenser fixed in its steam plant. The ops at WOM sent me all kinds of
stuff, impressing the hell out of a 14-year-old ham....(c;

Yep, AT&T had a "Hell of an Operation" back in the day. Nothing like
having a Massive Antenna Farm connected to your receiver....



Bruce in alaska
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add a 2 before @

Bruce in Alaska wrote in news:bruceg-
:

Yep, AT&T had a "Hell of an Operation" back in the day. Nothing like
having a Massive Antenna Farm connected to your receiver....



Bruce in alaska


I used to run a mobile cal lab for EIL Instruments out of Timmonium, MD.
My office was in Virginia Beach. I cal'd the test equipment at several CG
coast stations like New Orleans. Man what power those guys can make when
the chips are down to that big conical monopole out back...(c;

--
Larry

You know you've had a rough night when you wake up and your outlined in
chalk.