I still remember the phonetics W9 Yippie Hippie,
don´t know who the operator was.
73 Jim SM2EKM
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Zack Widup wrote:
> I would've operated that one from W9YH, the Synton ARC at the University
> of Illinois. I forget exactly what year we moved, but it was either 73 or
> 74 that we moved from the basement of an old house with a Zepp antenna up
> maybe 80 feet to the former site of WILL-AM, which gave us two
> free-standing 151-foot towers 400 feet apart to play with. We put a
> tri-bander on one tower and strung a double-extended Zepp between them.
> Now and then we put up other antennas, including a bobtail curtain.
>
> We tried gamma-matching one of the towers for 160 once. It didn't work
> so well.
>
> The club had a Drake line back then, an R4C and T4XC if I remember
> correctly.
>
> Those were the days! The twin towers are gone now. :-(
>
> 73, Zack W9SZ
>
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