“Pi” Pugh, K1RV writes on K1USN RC list:
The 2011 International Museum Ships Weekend was a resounding success!
We had quite a group of operators, helpers and visitors last weekend and we were able to make close to 1000 contacts with 46 states, 31 DXCC countries and 24 participating Museum Ships! The K1USN QSL requests are already pouring in! We hope to have our new cards printed ASAP.
We arrived at 7 PM Friday evening to get the HF stations ready to go. We ran the Yaesu FT-920 and 500 watt Ameritron Amplifier on 20 meters into the Sommer yagi. It performed flawlessly.
We decided to use the Kenwood TS-690-S into the G5RV antenna as our second station and concentrated on 40 meters.
We had over 250 contacts before shutting down for the night at 11:30PM.
Many of the K1USN crew went to Jamies in Braintree at 7 AM for breakfast before heading over to operate. Saturday morning we had both stations operational throughout the day and continued to rack up contacts. Although we did some operating on 17, 15 and 6 meters we pretty much stuck to the “bread n’ butter” bands of 20 and 40 meters.
Special thanks goes to Warren, WA1YKF, for doing a fine job preparing the ends of our hardline cable run to give us the option of using the R-5 vertical which is mounted on the phone pole at the lower end of the parking lot. This enabled us to add a third HF station using the IC-746-PRO and R-5. As an added bonus we found that six meters was open on Saturday and the R-5 loaded quite well on that band, too.
BTW, we were able to work a number of old friends including several who spent many hours operating with us during previous MSW events onboard the USS Salem. Bruce, K1HTN and Norm, WA1DBR as well as former USS Salem crew member, Radar, N2GDY.
We were unable to get our vintage station operational this year, but we already have plans for some station improvements by W1EKG and KB1IIU. BTW, Bill has offered to supply a watertight box for completing the hardline installation.
We had a total of 976 contacts with 262 on CW and the rest on SSB.
We worked 46 states missing only Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota and Wyoming.
Here is a list of the 31 DXCC countries worked: K United States VE Canada EA8 Canary Islands KP2 US Virgin Islands KP4 Puerto Rico TI Costa Rica HA Hungary DL Germany OE Austria V3 Belize UR Ukraine UA European Russia SP Poland I Italy EA6 Balearic Islands YO Roumania ZA Albania PA Netherlands ON Belgium V4 St Kitts YU Yugoslavia S5 Serbia UL Kazakhstan F France LX Luxembourg G England CU Portugal HP Panama EA Spain LZ Bulgaria SM Sweden
Here is a partial list of those who particIpated with us during MSW 2011. My apologies for any omissions.
K1RV, K1WN, W1JT, W1ICU, KB1PVC, W1AY, W1BT, N1VTI, WA1YKF, KA1KIJ, KB1TEE, KB1SVY ( and XYL, Michelle), N1DC, KB1UBX, KB1VGN, KB1REQ, NI1X, W1EKG, KB1IIU, WA1TPC, K1WCC, N1CVI, KC1JET.
Here is a list of the 24 participating ships we worked this year:
Please QSL each ship directly
USS Lexington Aircraft Carrier Corpus Christi, TX W5LEX
USS Yorktown Aircraft Carrier Charleston , SC WA4USN
USS New Jersey Battleship Camden, New Jersey NJ2BB
USS Massachusetts Battleship Fall River, MA N1EPL
SS Willis B Boyer Bulk Carrier Toledo, OH W8WBB
HMS Belfast Cruiser London, UK GB2RN
USS Littlerock Cruiser Buffalo, New York W2PE
USS Turner Joy Destroyer Bremerton, WA NS7DD
USS Slater Destroyer Escort Albany, NY WW2DEM
USCGC Mackinaw Icebreaker Mackinaw, MI W8AGB
*LS Nantucket Lightship East Boston, MA W1NLS
*LS Overfalls (LV 118) Lightship Lewes, DE KB3MIP
*Carl D Bradley Limestone Carrier Rogers City, MI W8CDB
USS LST-325 LST Evansville, IN WW2LST
MS Atlantis Minesweeper Dresden, Germany DK0MHD
SS Keewatin Passenger Steamship Saugatuck, MI K8CJQ
U-5075 Seehund Submarine Quincy, MA. WW2MAN S637 Espadon Submarine Saint-Nazaire France F6KBG
U-995 Submarine Laboe Germany DL0DMB
USS Batfish Submarine Muskogee, OK WW2SUB HMCS Onondaga Submarine Rimouski, Quebec VA2GNQ
SS American Victory Victory Ship Tampa, Florida W4AVM
*SS Lane Victory Sat Only 1600 to 2200Z Victory Ship Los Angeles, CA W6LV
Naval Tech’l Museum La SPEZIA A.R.M.I. Italy II1ICS
One final word to mention the VE exams this Saturday at K1USN! Please contact Bill, K1WN (k1wn@aol.com) if you want to take an exam.
73,
Pi – K1RV