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Many of you know John Grebenkemper, KI6WX, mastermind of several improvements to the K2, designer of the Tandem Match, and frequent contributor to ham journals. John is an avid hiker, and embarked this weekend on a challenging trek into the mountains of Wyoming. He's in Pinedale today, preparing for an assault on Fremont peak later this week. If he makes it, he may be the first to operate an HF rig from there. I found a web site with some great photos of the area he's headed for: http://www.chem.utah.edu/news/activities/WindRivers_1998/ John's principle means of communication will be an Elecraft KX1. He designed a minimum-weight center-fed antenna that's optimized for use with the KXAT1 internal ATU, and appropriate for the treeless, rocky terrain. He'll be using the rig with internal batteries and the keyer paddle. John's not exactly a CW buff, and will probably be getting by at 10 WPM or so. Tom Hammond and I are tasked with fielding John's daily reports via HF, starting tomorrow night. He'll be sending his QTH, GPS lat/lon, and status. This info will be relayed to his wife, Mary, who will call search and rescue if we don't hear from him at all by next Saturday. Since HF conditions have been very poor, Tom and I would really appreciate having some help listening for him. Here's his schedule for each evening: 0200Z, 10108 kHz 0215Z, 14062 kHz 0230Z, 7040 kHz Once he's made contact with either of us, or a QSP station, he will not continue on to the other frequencies. If you don't hear him successfully contact N6KR or N0SS, please feel free to give him a call and copy his info. You can then e-mail it to me. To get his attention, you might try "KI6WX QSP DE {your call}" a couple of times. Please use 10 WPM or so! PLEASE don't transmit until it sounds like he's having trouble contacting us. If all goes well, perhaps some of us will have a chance to have a more casual QSO with John. But the primary goal is to get the lat/lon data accurately so Mary can keep track of him ;) On the day that he climbs Fremont peak, he will also try calling on 10108 between 1800Z and 2100Z. But this is more for fun than for status reporting. John's outing is precisely the sort we'd designed the KX1 for, and we're excited about being able to help him stay in touch via ham radio. Thanks in advance-- Wayne N6KR --- http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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Thanks Wayne. Dave On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:52:50 -0700, wayne burdick <[hidden email]> wrote: > Hi All, SNIP > John is an avid hiker, and embarked this weekend on a challenging trek > into the mountains of Wyoming. He's in Pinedale today, preparing for an > assault on Fremont peak later this week. If he makes it, he may be the > first to operate an HF rig from there. I found a web site with some > great photos of the area he's headed for: > > http://www.chem.utah.edu/news/activities/WindRivers_1998/ > SNIP > Wayne > N6KR SNIP -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0430-3, 23/07/2004 Tested on: 26/07/2004 8:09:53 PM avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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Here is a link to download a topo map of the area: http://wgiac2.state.wy.us/scripts/sqltest/webform1.aspx?FileID=1479 CAUTION THIS IS A 3Mb ZIP FILE DOWNLOAD. -- 73, Rod N0RC ----- Original Message ----- From: "wayne burdick" <[hidden email]> To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[hidden email]> Cc: "QRP-L" <[hidden email]> Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 9:52 PM Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft contributor scaling Wyoming peaks withKX1--could use help listening for him this week > Hi All, > > Many of you know John Grebenkemper, KI6WX, mastermind of several > improvements to the K2, designer of the Tandem Match, and frequent > contributor to ham journals. > > John is an avid hiker, and embarked this weekend on a challenging trek > into the mountains of Wyoming. He's in Pinedale today, preparing for an > assault on Fremont peak later this week. If he makes it, he may be the _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [hidden email] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com |
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