W1AA Special Event - First Wireless Rescue At Sea of an Airship "AMERICA" October 18, 1910 

W1AA/W - Airship America and W1AA/RNR Rescue Ship SS Trent

First of all we want to thank all of you whom we worked. It would not have been an event without you getting on the bands and calling us. You are on our email list because you are an active "operator."   I have collected your calls and email addresses from past QSOs you have had with W1AA . "International Marconi Day". 84 Lighthouse Activations since 2003 . and the Jack Binns Event "First Rescue at Sea by Wireless" in Jan. 2009 .   We ran two stations.One was a IC-7000 . 100 wts to a 32 foot vertical wire . we used our lighthouse Tacoma antenna setup in the driveway. We ran about 200 ft of coax from the shack out to the truck in the driveway .the vertical wire is attached to the top of a 32 foot telescoping mast in a home brew mount which fits into the trailer receiver hitch on the back of the truck .  This station was used for both CW and phone . logging was done on a 30+ year old IBM Thinkpad . the CT contest logging program was used K1VV was the operator .   The other station was a YAESU FT-1000MP MK V . driving a Ameritron AL-1500Q amplifier about 1500 watts out . This station was used on phone only .the antennas were a 75 meter inverted vee up 65 feet. and a Force 12 C-4D . 40 - 10 yagi at 70 feet   the N1MM contest logging program was used . Henry K1WCC and Don K1DC were the operators   We had a total of 858 QSOs .  propagation was very poor with only one European station worked on Friday evening on 75 phone We worked a total of 49 DXCC countries  .   CU in the next special event . or at a lighthouse activation STAY ACTIVE !!!!!!!!!!!!!   73  Whitey K1VV W1AA - Marconi Radio Club IC-7000 FT-1000mp MK V & Ameritron AL-1500