I have worked the old AT&T West Coast HF Marine Station, KMI, while
running an N550, with the covers off, and feeding a Bird Kw Dummy Load,
from the Engineering Department, of the Old Northern Radio Building, on
West Commadore Way, in Seattle, Washington, on both 8 and 12 Mhz,
with excellent Signal Reports. It is amazing what can happen when the
Band is open........

Bruce in alaska Lordy, those were the days........

Wasn't that KMI something! When in the Puget Sound area, and they
switched their antenna array on you, it would burn the lint off your
receiver's antenna coils!
What a friendly bunch of operators.... usually asked, "howz the
weather up there?" after an honest and critical signal report.
Yes, those were the days. Every day about dusk, we'd listen for Peggy
and the weather to see if the path was going to be good for our fishermen's
wives limited coast stations.
Don't know if conditions are generally bum, or cell phones and
satellite radio have taken over, but 4125 doesn't sound the same anymore.
Old Chief Lynn