I will be at this unusual field day! 73 Barb k1eir
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Counselman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Barbara Lombardi" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 1:45 PM
Subject: Field Day


> Barbara, unless you fear that it would not be appropriate, would you
> please forward the following Field Day related announcement to any
> relevant hams or ham clubs whose email addresses you have?  Thank
> you.  -Chuck W1HIS
>
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>
> Subj.: WW II vintage FD station
>
> Please stop; do not send a report to the Official Observer Corps; but
> work the station and send a spot to the packet cluster when you hear
> the slightly chirpy CW signals from W1HIS on 80 and 40 meters during
> Field Day.  W1HIS will be a reconstituted World War II vintage field
> wireless station with 100% WW II (June 1944) vintage radios and
> accessories, including two Wireless Sets No. 19, a WS#18, WS#38, a
> human-powered and a gasoline-fueled Mark V generator.  NO
> transistors, NO digital electronics, NO coax-fed antennas, NO ferrite
> baluns, not even a computer for logging.  Even the operators will be
> WW II vintage (born in 1943).  QTH: Cove Island Park, Long Island
> Sound, City of Stamford, CT.  Set up by Headquarters Company, 1st
> Canadian Parachute Battalion (Reenacted) to honor the veterans and
> educate the public.
>
> Tnx.  -Chuck, W1HIS