Thursday, March 4, 2010

CW on 15m with the PRC-320

Today I made three QSOs on 15m SSB: Germany (DL8VX), the US (AI1C, Dick) and Greece (SV2MAP, Giannis). Then Idecided to try some CW on the same band and made a QSO with DL4HG (Olaf) from Hamburg, who was using a 2-element beam. Then I received a call from HA2NEP (Peti). Finally I also got a call from K9DP (Dan) from Tennessee.
The State of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians.[7] What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. In the early 19th-century, Tennessee was home to some of American history's most colorful political figures, among them Davy Crockett, Andrew Jackson, and Sam Houston. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War in 1861, and the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war.[8] Tennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state, and more soldiers for the Union Army than any other Southern state.[8] Tennessee has seen some of the nation's worst racial strife, from the formation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski in 1866 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis in 1968.
In the 20th century, Tennessee transitioned from an agrarian economy to a more diversified economy, aided at times by federal entities such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. In the early 1940s, Oak Ridge, Tennessee was established to house the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities, helping to build the world's first atomic bomb.
I think I will have to clean the morse key's contacts and adjust it somewhat but the PRC-320 seems to be well endowed for this mode, with an excellent narrow CW filter.

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