And this reminds me of an article in the July, 1981 CQ Magazine, page 85,
called "The Ham Who Wasn't" by Gerald Samkofsky, N4ZB at the time. I can't
find any current information on a ham of that name and given the time
frame of the story, he may be a SK.
He and his wife went out walking in Brooklyn one day in the 1950s and he
noticed a longwire antenna atop a commercial building. Probably a fellow
ham. He wanted to stop in, but his wife didn't want to bother the person, so
they continued their walk. On subsequent walks his wife also refused.
But later, on a free Saturday, the ham went by himself and found the wire led
to a photography studio, but no one was there. He inquired at a
neighboring office and was told the studio tenant had left the property
several days
earlier with "some stern faced" men and hadn't been seen since.
Turns out the "ham" was Rudolf Abel, a Soviet spy who was taken into
custody by the FBI. He was later exchanged for Gary Powers, the downed U-2
pilot. That story was recently told again in the movie "Bridge of Spies."
73,
Ken, AB1J
In a message dated 2017-09-02 1:22:18 P.M. Coordinated Universal Tim,
cq-contest@contesting.com writes:
This reminds me of the story of K2SX, who many years ago lived next to the
Russian consulate (or some other Russian diplomatic outpost) in New York
City.
Any time Dennis would go up on his roof to do antenna work, he drew a good
crowd of people watching and taking pictures of what he was doing.
73 - Jim K8MR
-----Original Message-----
From: James Cain <jamesdavidcain@gmail.com>
To: cq-contest <cq-contest@contesting.com>
Sent: Sat, Sep 2, 2017 7:45 am
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Antenna farm
Here's a link to a photo - taken by an Associated Press photographer, at
the
Russian consulate in San Francisco on Friday, 09/01. Take a look and blow
it
up to check out the aerials. Nice center-fed 2-wire doublet and some kind
of
ground plane vertical to the left. Another single-wire doublet to the
right,
and a dish, maybe for 432 MHz moonbounce. This is great news! - SF is often
a tough Section multiplier in the ARRL SS.
Who says radio is dead?
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/smoke-russian-consulate-san-francisco
K1TN
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