G'day Steve,
Robin and Mike were great DX friends. Got together usually weekly to talk
about DX.. Early on with poor radios they had QRM problem if they both on
160 meters at the same sunrise time. They decided Mike would take 160 meters
and Robin 80 meters (75 SSB) this time period..
Robin had two Beverage antenna toward North America, They were arranged and
feed in a V Beam fashion, terminated and high enough so a "Joey" would not take
them down.
Salt water came up to his QTH underground, so he had a system to catch
rainwater from the roof of his house and store it in very large tanks for home
use.. His vertical antenna(s) radials were very effective over this below
ground salt water possibly acting as raised radials.
Robin did work other bands including 40 SSB in his later years. Worked him
once on 10 meter SSB from my mobile in the early 1990's.
73
Bruce-K1FZ
http://www.qsl.net/k1fz/beverage_antenna.html
On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 21:01:08 +0800, "Steve Ireland" wrote:
G’day
Very sorry to hear of the passing of Robin VK6LK. The passion of Robin and his
great friend Mike VK6HD for lowband DXing was an inspiration to me when first
arriving in Western Australia in 1989. The old SSB DX window just below 3.8MHz
at local sunrise won’t sound quite the same – Robin’s presence there was as
regular as clockwork for most of the last quarter of a century.
Vy 73
Steve, VK6VZ
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