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Dick-4

April 1st belated

How did I ever forget this ?? I was able to run my OCF Dipole under the High Voltage power lines behind my house, which run from Niagara Falls station to Millbury, Massachusetts. The RF coupled to the 6 power lines and now I have the longest Dipole antenna in the world according to Guinness Book of Records!! I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! And this is a DX record .

73 / Dick

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Phil Hystad-3

Re: April 1st belated

Dick,

That must also be a world-record for the longest QSO ever. Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light-years distant from Earth so a round trip would be approximately 8.74 years just to establish a firm contact. Technically, if you guys exchanged the typical signal report, name, qth, and other information you should still be working on waiting for his name. Then, you could have done that in your CQ call itself and saved some time.

73, phil, K7PEH

> On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Richard Jubinville <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> How did I ever forget this ?? I was able to run my OCF Dipole under the High Voltage power lines behind my house, which run from Niagara Falls station to Millbury, Massachusetts. The RF coupled to the 6 power lines and now I have the longest Dipole antenna in the world according to Guinness Book of Records!! I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! And this is a DX record .
>
> 73 / Dick
>
> W1REJ
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David Ahrendts

Re: April 1st belated

The soon to be announced K6 (see the April 1st posts) will routinely manage HDCWH mode (Hyper-Drive Cosmic Worm Hole mode), a perfect match for the W1REJ OCF High Voltage power line Dipole. Oh, and it’s in the new 10kHZ super ESSB mode.

> On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Phil Hystad <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Dick,
>
> That must also be a world-record for the longest QSO ever. Alpha Centauri is 4.37 light-years distant from Earth so a round trip would be approximately 8.74 years just to establish a firm contact. Technically, if you guys exchanged the typical signal report, name, qth, and other information you should still be working on waiting for his name. Then, you could have done that in your CQ call itself and saved some time.
>
> 73, phil, K7PEH
>
>
>> On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Richard Jubinville <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>>
>> How did I ever forget this ?? I was able to run my OCF Dipole under the High Voltage power lines behind my house, which run from Niagara Falls station to Millbury, Massachusetts. The RF coupled to the 6 power lines and now I have the longest Dipole antenna in the world according to Guinness Book of Records!! I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! And this is a DX record .
>>
>> 73 / Dick
>>
>> W1REJ
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Charlie T, K3ICH

Re: April 1st belated

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Tars Tarkas is quite active on Barsoom. Tune around 1296 MHz and point your
array at the orange dot that is currently on the arc about half way between
the Sun and Venus

73, Charlie k3ICH

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Jubinville" <[hidden email]>
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Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 1:28 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] April 1st belated

> How did I ever forget this ?? I was able to run my OCF Dipole under the
> High Voltage power lines behind my house, which run from Niagara Falls
> station to Millbury, Massachusetts. The RF coupled to the 6 power lines
> and now I have the longest Dipole antenna in the world according to
> Guinness Book of Records!! I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha
> Centauri !!! And this is a DX record .
>
> 73 / Dick
>
> W1REJ
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Cortland Richmond-2

Re: April 1st belated

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On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 13:28:58 "Richard Jubinville" W1REJ wrote:
> I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! And this is a DX record .
>
> 73 / Dick
>
> W1REJ

Pending!... arrival of a QSL card and confirmation of a license issued
by a recognized (here) government.

Heh!

Cortland
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web.de

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By the way, Does it count for DXCC?

Christian

Von meinem iPhone gesendet

> Am 03.04.2015 um 15:39 schrieb CR <[hidden email]>:
>
>> On Thu, 2 Apr 2015 13:28:58 "Richard Jubinville" W1REJ wrote:
>> I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! And this is a DX record .
>>
>> 73 / Dick
>>
>> W1REJ
>
> Pending!... arrival of a QSL card and confirmation of a license issued by a recognized (here) government.
>
> Heh!
>
>
> Cortland
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Edward R Cole

Re: April 1st belated

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Actually Dick has not completed his QSO with me since he has not
confirmed my signal report:
RST = 0.000000000001, 5, 9
His 1kw CW signal with 20-dB gain to my planetary antenna with 35-dB
gain on 20m resulted in SNR of -205.4 dB; I'm still integrating it to
bring it out of the noise. Path loss of 464.7 dB results from the
over the 4.96 E12 km path. Next time fire up your fusion-reaction
thermo-nuclear amplifier: KPA-1BVA.

What you doubt that I am on the third planet orbiting Alpha
centauri? Well tell that to the USPS as everyone believes Alaska is
on another planet (maybe even another solar system)!

73, Ed - KL7UW
nano nano earthlings

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Dick,

That must also be a world-record for the longest QSO ever. Alpha
Centauri is 4.37 light-years distant from Earth so a round trip would
be approximately 8.74 years just to establish a firm
contact. Technically, if you guys exchanged the typical signal
report, name, qth, and other information you should still be working
on waiting for his name. Then, you could have done that in your CQ
call itself and saved some time.

73, phil, K7PEH

> On Apr 2, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Richard Jubinville
<[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> How did I ever forget this ?? I was able to run my OCF Dipole
under the High Voltage power lines behind my house, which run from
Niagara Falls station to Millbury, Massachusetts. The RF coupled to
the 6 power lines and now I have the longest Dipole antenna in the
world according to Guinness Book of Records!! I was actually able to
contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! And this is a DX record .
>
> 73 / Dick
>
> W1REJ

73, Ed - KL7UW
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vk2rq

Re: April 1st belated

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Wow, that's a dedicated DX-er for you: you would have had to wait over 8 and a half years to get the response! I don't think I'd hold my breath for a QSL card within this lifetime, though ;-)

73, Matt VK2RQ

> On 3 Apr 2015, at 2:28 am, Richard Jubinville <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> How did I ever forget this ?? I was able to run my OCF Dipole under the High Voltage power lines behind my house, which run from Niagara Falls station to Millbury, Massachusetts. The RF coupled to the 6 power lines and now I have the longest Dipole antenna in the world according to Guinness Book of Records!! I was actually able to contact a Ham on Alpha Centauri !!! And this is a DX record .
>
> 73 / Dick
>
> W1REJ
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Harlan Sherriff

Re: April 1st belated

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But at least Intergalactic Buisness Mail
(IBM) delivers 24/7 and 365.

Harlan
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<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Matt VK2RQ <[hidden email]> </div><div>Date:04/04/2015 2:33 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Richard Jubinville <[hidden email]> </div><div>Cc: "<[hidden email]>" <[hidden email]> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] April 1st belated </div><div>
</div>Wow, that's a dedicated DX-er for you: you would have had to wait over 8 and a half years to get the response! I don't think I'd hold my breath for a QSL card within this lifetime, though ;-)

73, Matt VK2RQ

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