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Re: [CQ-Contest] 1973 SS CW

Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] 1973 SS CW
From: Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm@telia.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:30:23 +0200
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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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