At 01:39 PM 8/24/02 -0300, Mike & Coreen Smith wrote:
>If anyone should contact a 4U1UN operator can you please put in a request
>for 6m activity too?
>I know a lot of 160m ops are also found on the magic band. Been looking for
>4U1UN on 6m for over a decade
>and nuttin' yet !
I wouldn't hold my breath. At one point K2GM, an enthusiastic contest op,
was either trustee or at least a principal operator. I remember visiting
the station with him back in the 1980s when he told me about their having
deployed a 160M dipole sloper from their shack on the 50-something floor of
the building down to the banks of the East River. I bet that played to
Europe, since the bottom of the antenna would have been maybe 300 feet up.
In more recent years, my understanding is that K2GM (who wasn't a direct UN
employee as I recall, but rather a contractor) lost his access, and the
station was taken over by some members of the UN Secretariat. DX Summit
shows some operation as recently as March (by KU9C) and a little 30M
operation in July. The 28200 beacon is also still working, but no sign of
topband activity back through 2001 at least.
73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower
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