From:
Fred Hopengarten K1VR 781/259-0088
Six Willarch Road
Lincoln, MA 01773-5105
permanent e-mail address: fhopengarten@mba1972.hbs.edu
On Mon, 4 May 1998 22:57:58 -0400 (EDT) "David L. Thompson"
<thompson@mindspring.com> writes:
> Nobody heard
>and worked Eu better than W1FZJ Sam at W1BU on AM in the late 50's and
>SSB in the early 60's.
K1VR: W1BU was the callsign of the Rhododendron Swamp VHF Society, as
Sam Harris' home was located in Medfield, MA in the area known as the . .
. (guess what?). His antenna was a half-wave dipole a half-wave high,
fed with coax. It was a zero dBd gain antenna. Got that? ZERO dBd gain.
And so, my children, if you achieve zero dBd gain on 80 (and especially
on 160), you may become a legend.
Sam could indeed hear well on his R-390 receiver and with that dipole.
Now about Sam's amplifier . . .he thought that building a cabinet around
it was too much effort, so he kept it in the garage next to the shack and
merely put copper shielding on the inside walls of the garage.
Been there. Saw that.
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