Well, during my vacation in the frozen north east, I found myself less
than 30 minutes from Newington, CT.
I stopped by and got the tour of the facility. I highly reccomend it for
anyone who is in the area. They tour you through the whole building.
There is a nice museum of amateur radio in the lobby with lots of OLD
stuff.
I also checked out the W1AW station. Towers and beams and verticals, Oh
My! It was cool to see where all that code practice comes from ;-) I got
a chance to be a guest operator in one of the stations. Just my luck, 17
meters was the only station/antenna available and the beam was iced up
and probably damaged. Could only get 10 watts out of that really
expensive Icom radio. Didn't have time to change bands as I had already
used up the familys patients. Bummer, no joy as W1AW :-(
I'm going back this summer if I can.
72 de kf4trd
Mike Maiorana
-- If it's tourist season, why can't we shoot them?
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