{"id":10747,"date":"2009-11-09T05:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T18:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/transatlantic-team-heads-to-the-coast\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T05:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:03:22","slug":"transatlantic-team-heads-to-the-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/11\/09\/transatlantic-team-heads-to-the-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Team Heads to the Coast!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When it comes time to cross the pond, it seems only natural to head to the beach. That’s what Marconi did (above we see his team struggling with a kite at Newfoundland). And that is what AA1TJ, W1REX, AA1MY and W1PID are doing today and tomorrow. Here is Michael’s message to QRP-L describing the expedition. Good luck guys! <\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the lads are heading over to the Maine seacoast on Monday<\/span>
morning for what we’re calling a “Rexpedition.” W1REX was kind enough<\/span>
to secure the use of his family’s beachfront camp for us for a couple<\/span>
of days. He explained the urgency to them, saying, “…a bunch of<\/span>
radio-heads want to talk to <\/span>Europe<\/span> with the equivalent of a cellphone<\/span>
with a dead battery.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Rex, Seab, AA1MY and Jim, W1PID, are going to arrive early on Monday<\/span>
to begin putting up the antennas. I plan to show up in time for lunch;<\/span>
hopefully after all the hard work is done. Seab wants to erect a pair<\/span>
of half-wave phased verticals on 20m. I think the plan is to lift a<\/span>
160m antenna using one of Seab’s big kites.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our hope is to cross the pond on both 160m QRP and with my<\/span>
voice-powered 20m transmitter. The weather forecast looks great at<\/span>
least through Tuesday. My “Code Talker” will be rockbound on<\/span>
14.055MHz; same as last Thursday. We’ll begin the voice-powered 20m CW<\/span>
attempt the first thing on <\/span>Tuesday morning<\/span> (11\/10\/09). Again, the goal<\/span>
is to span the Atlantic, but as always, I’ll be very pleased to work<\/span>
anyone that hears me.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, last Thursday’s voice-powered operation on 20m was a great<\/span>
success. Altogether, I worked four stations and received one SWL<\/span>
report. The best DX was W4FOA in <\/span>Chickamauga, GA<\/span>; a distance of<\/span>
923miles. Tony reported that my 15mW signal was “an honest 579”. W4OP<\/span>
– located one hundred miles to the north of Tony – handed me the same<\/span>
report and followed up with an amazing recording (you can hear it on<\/span>
my website). Later in the day I received an email from AD5VC. Dana<\/span>
reported that he clearly copied my callsign while listening on the LSU<\/span>
club station (K5LSU) in <\/span>Baton Rouge<\/span>; a distance of 1375miles (nearly<\/span>
half the distance between the Maine coast and London, England).<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought these were remarkable results for 15mW into an endfed wire<\/span>
at 35 feet. It makes next week’s attempt from a saltwater QTH, coupled<\/span>
with the low-angle of radiation with a spot of directional gain all<\/span>
the more exciting.<\/span><\/p>\n

So please keep us in mind come <\/span>next Tuesday morning<\/span>. I’m guessing Seab<\/span>
will be operating 160m QRP on both Monday and Tuesday evenings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you,<\/span>
Mike, AA1T<\/span>J<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes time to cross the pond, it seems only natural to head to the beach. That’s what Marconi did (above we see his team struggling with a kite at Newfoundland). And that is what AA1TJ, W1REX, AA1MY and W1PID are doing today and tomorrow. Here is Michael’s message to QRP-L describing the expedition. … Continue reading “Transatlantic Team Heads to the Coast!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,85,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aa1tj","category-minimalist-radio","category-rainey-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10749,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10747\/revisions\/10749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}