Don will be missed. I use to work him often in the 70's when he was W0EYE
and lived west of Boulder. I still have the NBS publications in a box out
in the shed.
Also, WD0HAM (his original issued call), Stu Nadler, passed away last week.
Stu was President of the Steamboat Springs Amateur Radio Club.
73, Harry, W0BL
On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Marshall-K5QE <k5qe@k5qe.com> wrote:
> Hello all....Don was truly a great man. He knew a lot and helped
> beginners like me when he did not have to. He will be sorely missed.
>
> One very small thing.....the original paper on NBS yagi design was by
> Peter P. Viezbicke. The story that I was told on this was that after Pete
> did all the work on the yagi designs, his boss wanted to put his name on
> the paper. Pete said, "Hell NO" and stuck the paper in his desk drawer. I
> the paper was finally published, but later, as NBS Technical Note 688. I
> found a copy on the web at http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpu
> bs/Legacy/TN/nbstechnicalnote688.pdf. It is certainly worth a once-over
> if not detailed study.
>
> This in no way detracts from Don's design of the 432 yagi for which he is
> so famous. The original paper was somewhat obtuse....it was a large
> collection of graphs, curves, and other such design mechanisms. Using it
> was non-trivial. Don was a genius for being able to figure it all out and
> come up with a simple 432 yagi design that any careful constructor could
> re-create.
>
> RIP OM.....
>
> 73 Marshall K5QE
>
> //
>
> From: Roger Cox
> Date: Friday, March 31, 2017
> Subject: [Mich VHF UHF Society] W0PW SK
> To: MiVUS
>
> A pioneer on VHF, UHF, and microwave bands, and the designer of a popular
> Yagi model, Don Hilliard, W0PW (ex-W0EYE), of Clayton, Oklahoma, died on
> March 25 following a lengthy period of ill health. An ARRL member, he was
> 81.
>
> “Over the decades, Don made numerous contributions to the hobby and
> specifically in the VHF, UHF and microwave arena of Amateur Radio,” said
> Bill Mc Caa, K0RZ. “He was a pioneer in developing the first amateur
> equipment for the 900 MHz band in 1983 in anticipation of the band becoming
> available for amateurs. Don was a founding member of the Central States VHF
> Society in 1967, as well as of the Microwave Update in 1985.”
>
> Hilliard’s Yagi design, based on unpublished work by Peter Biezbicke at
> the National Bureau of Standards, was legendary in the VHF/UHF community.
> The antenna was described in “The World Above 50 MHz” (“15-Element Yagi by
> W0EYE”) in the January 1972 edition of QST.
>
> Hilliard also authored articles for QST and QEX.
>
>
> http://www.arrl.org/news/vhf-uhf-microwave-pioneer-don-hilliard-w0pw-sk
>
> ________________________________________________
>
>
> On 3/31/2017 2:02 PM, Mark Thompson via VHFcontesting wrote:
>
>> From: Roger Cox<rgcox2@gmail.com>
>> Date: Friday, March 31, 2017
>> Subject: [Mich VHF UHF Society] W0PW SK
>> To: MiVUS<MiVUS@mivus.org>
>>
>> A pioneer on VHF, UHF, and microwave bands, and the designer of a popular
>> Yagi model, Don Hilliard, W0PW (ex-W0EYE), of Clayton, Oklahoma, died on
>> March 25 following a lengthy period of ill health. An ARRL member, he was
>> 81.
>>
>> “Over the decades, Don made numerous contributions to the hobby and
>> specifically in the VHF, UHF and microwave arena of Amateur Radio,” said
>> Bill Mc Caa, K0RZ. “He was a pioneer in developing the first amateur
>> equipment for the 900 MHz band in 1983 in anticipation of the band becoming
>> available for amateurs. Don was a founding member of the Central States VHF
>> Society in 1967, as well as of the Microwave Update in 1985.”
>>
>> Hilliard’s Yagi design, based on unpublished work by Peter Biezbicke at
>> the National Bureau of Standards, was legendary in the VHF/UHF community.
>> The antenna was described in “The World Above 50 MHz” (“15-Element Yagi by
>> W0EYE”) in the January 1972 edition of QST.
>>
>> Hilliard also authored articles for QST and QEX.
>>
>>
>> http://www.arrl.org/news/vhf-uhf-microwave-pioneer-don-hilliard-w0pw-sk
>>
>> ________________________________________________
>>
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