ARLA/CLUSTER: Primeiros contactos em 473 kHz entre a Australia e a Nova Zelandia

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

ZL to VK 1st CW QSO on new band

After a lot of research, the claim of the first QSO between the two
countries is verified as being by *ZL1ZLD* and *VK4QC* in April 2013.

The logbook of ZL1ZLD reads that on September 5, 2013, a contact with VK4QC
was the 1st in CW with VK.

After ZL1ZLD sent a test, a reply was received from VK4QC. Then ZL1ZLD
acknowledged the call at RST 339 with much QRN, and thanked him for being
the first VK QSO. VK4QC gave RST 539 and thanked him also as the first.

At ZL1ZLD was *Paul Chamberlaine ZL1BBR*, of the Musick Point Radio Group.
It uses the original Dansk transmitter at the home of the last New Zealand
coast station ZLD that closed in 1993.

*Peter Hewitson VK4QC* is an ex-Merchant Navy Radio Officer and Coast Radio
Station operator. In pride of place acknowledging the achievement on the
new Amateur Radio band is a special QSL and pendant, from the Musick Point
Memorial Radio Station ZL2ZLD.

Peter VK4QC advises that his station is a Skanti TRP-8250 solid state
marine transceiver originally from HMAS Waterhen, an Australian Naval Shore
station near Sydney Australia.

The antenna is a Marconi T, with 3 horizontal wires, 10m high and 30m long
with 8 radials, via an ex-NDB (non-directional beacon) aerial coupling unit.

Meantime the popular *VK3FI* 473 kHz CW beacon at Mildura in northwest
Victoria is being heard regularly throughout Australia, New Zealand and
perhaps beyond.

The nightly beacon with a 12 wpm CW identification, followed by 20 seconds
of carrier, has helped stimulate activity on the 472 to 479 kHz band.

The CW may be copied by ear without special equipment or software programs,
while its burst of carrier allows those with programs such as Spectrum Lab
to detect its presence. It has been heard from 0900 UTC to 2200 UTC.

VK3FI invites reports. Can you hear it? Then email a report to
vk3fi  wia.org.au

*Jim Linton VK3PC*
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