[HiDARG-MEMBERS] WWV special event station.... From the pages of May Spectrum Monitor.

[Max Vaughan]

Thanks to Hugh Stegman columnists for the SM  Digtial magazine.

 

Excerpt from SM.

Now that it's off the hit list, WWV can celebrate its

centennial. It is said to be the world's oldest continuously

broadcasting radio station. It beat KDKA onto the air. Many

older stations exist, of course, but they didn't broadcast.

They communicated with ships or military units, using Alexanderson

alternators, arc transmitters, and other scary pieces

of equipment.

 

The amateur radio club doing the special event in

late September has been granted the one-time call sign of

WW0WWV. It will operate just outside the security fence

of the Fort Collins facility, which is a fairly quick drive up

from Denver. The plan is to make like its namesake and stay

on-air around the clock. WWV does this too, but then it sort

of is the clock, being totally governed by atomic standards.

This is a major undertaking for a ham radio station, and it

will need a lot of licensed ops to get through the scheduled

five days from September 30 to October 2. The QSL should

be awesome, though.

 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology,

formerly the National Bureau of Standards, plans to have its

own observance on October 1. According to a news item on

the ARRL site, this will include some kind of open house

at the station, which is normally a high-security facility. If

this is true, it ought to be good. WWV is a very nice setup

indeed.

 

As long as we're doing WWV, there was a news item

a few days ago concerning a new announcement slot for the

U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) at 10 minutes past the

hour. It'll also be on WWVH at 50 past the hour. Messages

pertain to exercises of interest to MARS members. They're

scheduled in June, August, and October. If everything goes

well, the announcements will eventually be changed more

often, and on continuously

 

 

73

Max Vaughan KF7MAX  Secretary

High Desert Amateur Radio Group

PO Box 723

Bend, Oregon USA   97709 

541-706-1475

 

www.hidarg.org  

maxv at horizonps.com  

kf7max at arrl.net

 

 

 

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