I was looking through the surviving log books my dad kept (he was W5JHJ, SK 2007) and came across some Anciente Entries made while I was in the Olde OU ARC
(maybe the president?) my first year at OU (I transferred from the Univ. of Tulsa ans an Engineering Physics major to study meteorology. He lived in Tulsa and we had some QSOs while I was using the club gear after we repaired it -- it was a Heathkit HW-101 transceiver; I was using the club's call, W5TC. The station was set up in the top floor of the Carson Engineering Center and I have no idea what the antenna was -- likely a dipole strung up on the roof. There was a flurry of QSOs on 80 m CW, all on 3575 kHz.
Date Time start RST Signal
and end report
13 Oct 1976 2000-2100 CST 599
15 Oct 1976 2000-2030 CST 479
18 Oct 1976 2000-2100 CST 579
20 Oct 1976 2030-2115 CST 599
22 Oct 1976 2005-2050 CST 599
05 Nov 1976 1930-2000 CST 599
We apparently tried on two other occasions, 25 Oct and 27 Oct, but signals were not usable.
Why not phone (SSB), you ask? Because my dad had only AM capability at the time -- he didn't have an SSB-capable transmitter. As an aside, the very transmitter and receiver he used is sitting on my operating desk and in perfect working order.
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Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of
Meteorology, CCM, PP SEL/MEL/Glider, UAS, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)
“The weather is never wrong.” – Pam Wilson