Good morning y'all - -
I spent a couple years in the Navy in Long Beach in the very early
70's, and was probably 15 miles (the way the crow flies) from W6AM's
radio ranch out on Palos Verdes. I was running the Naval Station club
station in my spare time where we had a Mosley Classic-36 at 100 feet
and a kilowatt. I wasn't really a DX'er then (or now), but did work
some DX, and an occasional DX contest. I discovered that the big game
amongst the DX'ers in that part of Southern California was to try and
beat Don out in the pileups. Turns out sometimes you could and
sometimes you couldn't. In the long run, I suspect Don's pileup
success was really not much better than anyone else's, but his antenna
farm was impressive.
73,
Brad, W5CGH
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--- Joe Reisert <jreisert@jlc.net> wrote:
> Tom,
>
> I don't want to start a war but FWIW, my good friend VE2LI ex. G2LI
> (who
> passed away in 1999) told me shortly before his untimely death that
> W6AM
> was by no means the strongest W6 into the UK. In fact he said Don was
>
> second layer to some of the other DX station in Southern California,
> especially on the lower bands when he was G2LI and one of the first
> UK
> stations to work W6s on 80 meters in the late 1940's.
>
> 73,
>
> Joe, W1JR
>
>
> At 12:02 AM 1/4/01 -0800, Tom Osborne wrote:
>
>
> >Ted Leaf wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Guys,
> > >
> > > The former big Voice of America station in the U.S. used huge
> rhombics.
> >
> >And lets not forget the grand old man of DX'ing, W6AM and his
> >rhombic farm. Rotary yagi's are great, but don't have the
> >mystique of a good rhombic farm :-) 73
> >Tom W7WHY
> >
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