That would be cool guys.
Mark
W0NCL
-----Original Message-----
From: Don Havlicek <n8de@thepoint.net>
To: Bill Tippett <btippett@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
Sent: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:27:49 -0400
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] W3CRA's location
Bill,
When I was starting my Masters, I attended Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, near Frank's home.
Out of curiousity, I drove over one day to find him sitting outside the
'shack' in a rocking chair.
He gave me the 'grand tour' of the place .. and I took some slide shots
of his antennaS ... not a 3-element yagi among the Telrex arrays on high
power poles!
The Telrex antennas were the old type with 'carpet beaters' at the ends
of the elements. [Takes an old-timer to remember those!]
I'll try to dig up the photos for you. I'll have to get my friend to
put the slides in jpg files so I can forward them.
73
Don
N8DE, ex-W8QHW
Bill Tippett wrote:
> While doing a little research on AC5PN
> (not A51PN who is a different station), I checked
> my K4RID log entry from 12/11/1960 when I worked
> Chhawna on my 16th birthday. I got a 579 from
> him and noticed a log notation that W3CRA got
> 559. If any of you OT's remember W3CRA,
> you know this was truly worthy of a log entry!
>
> Frank Lucas W3CRA of Canonsburg, PA
> near Pittsburg probably had the most amazing
> ability to hear on 20 meters of any station I've ever
> heard. I still can recall listening to him many times
> running Central Asian stations that I could not even
> hear a trace of in North Carolina. I'm not surprised
> at instances like this on 160 meters, where the
> propagation can be very selective, but this was on
> 20 which is much more predictable.
>
> Do any of you happen to have first-hand
> knowledge of Frank's location in Canonsburg?
> He apparently only used a 3 element Yagi, so
> his QTH must have been fabulous. I would be
> very interested if anyone knows any details of
> his location. It would almost be worth a trip to
> see it myself because I am still in awe to this
> day...even after nearly 50 years on the air.
>
> 73, Bill W4ZV (ex-K4RID)
>
>
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