Friday - Museum Sta. K3RTV

[WA3VJB]

Anyone around 7285Kc mid-morning through lunchtime on Friday Mar. 1 please listen for K3RTV, the club station at the National Capital Radio & Television Museum in Bowie, Maryland.

I'll be showing club members how to tune and operate the Johnson Ranger and Hammarlund HQ140X into the inverted Vee we've got in the yard at the museum.

QSL 100%, good in the callbook / QRZ.com

Audio recordings appreciated as well; email as MP3.

[WA3VJB]

Band in good shape this morning !

Healthy, stable signals. 1430-1530 GMT

Working: 7290Kc

WA2DTW / Steve  Valiant/HQ170
K3SQP / Frank  Apache/NC183
KB2OUA / Tom  100 watts, missed the rig
WF2Q / Howie  1952 Viking II, restoring to original, new to AM, licensed 1957 but missed AM, now very much into it and having a great time.

W8LXJ / Bob  KW-1 Ser No. 2, has had it for 25 years, 51J4 had since 1983


One thing we have to worry about there is NOT to junk up the operating desk (like at home, huh-HA !)

Already running out of real estate with a monitor scope and a wire tuner.  The ME-165 can go, as can the slop-bucket rig on the desk. I don't know how to use that one anyway.

[WA3VJB]

Station was on the air again Friday Mar. 8, working N2DTS Brett and a few other stations.

Finally got the museum Curator on the air and checked out, Brian KB3PRS is there weekdays so you may hear him up and running.

Made a recording of the transmitted audio and it needs a little tweakage.  Rather thin, and Brian is among those who prefer to keep modulation under 80%

Tried to get across the idea that especially when running low power it's better to hit it harder and watch the scope.