{"id":39297,"date":"2019-08-24T06:39:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T10:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=39297"},"modified":"2019-08-24T06:39:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T10:39:31","slug":"saq-receives-438-listener-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/saq-receives-438-listener-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"SAQ receives 438 listener reports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grimeton VLF mast<\/p><\/div>\n

(Source: Southgate ARC<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Alexanderson Alternator station\u00a0SAQ<\/strong>\u00a0says it received 438 listener reports \u2014 ‘an incredible amount’ \u2014 for its June 30 Alexanderson Day transmissions from Sweden including 8 ‘super’ DX reports, five from the USA and three from Canada.<\/p>\n

The historic electro-mechanical transmitter, which dates back to the 1920s, is fired up periodically throughout the year on 17.2 kHz.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very thankful for all your enthusiastic and positive feedback, with images, recordings, videos, and even Morse ink writer strips,\u201d SAQ said.<\/p>\n

The station is a World Heritage Site in Grimeton, Sweden and SAQ\u2019s June 30 message commemorated the 100th anniversary of the first east-to-west transatlantic voice transmission from the Marconi station in Ireland to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

SAQ<\/a> has posted an interactive map showing the locations of all received listener reports from recent transmissions and video of the Alexanderson Day transmission event has been posted to its YouTube channel.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/AlexanderSAQ\/videos<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: Southgate ARC) Alexanderson Alternator station\u00a0SAQ\u00a0says it received 438 listener reports \u2014 ‘an incredible amount’ \u2014 for its June 30 Alexanderson Day transmissions from Sweden including 8 ‘super’ DX reports, five from the USA and three from Canada. The historic electro-mechanical transmitter, which dates back to the 1920s, is fired up periodically throughout the year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,288,4796,3485],"tags":[3619,1416,1417,580],"class_list":["post-39297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radio-history","category-vintage-radio","category-vlf","tag-alexanderson-alternator-station-saq","tag-radio-grimeton-saq","tag-saq-radio","tag-southgate-arc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-adP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35182,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/saqs-17-2-khz-christmas-eve-transmission\/","url_meta":{"origin":39297,"position":0},"title":"SAQ’s 17.2 kHz Christmas Eve transmission","author":"Thomas","date":"December 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: ARRL News via Ron) Sweden\u2019s Alexanderson alternator station SAQ has planned a Christmas Eve transmission on 17.2 kHz. 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