Guys,
I looked up W3CRA, on Google, got a reference to his Location in Cannonsburg
PA, near Pittsburg,
could not find it by text search in Google Maps, but found it by map
searching on Google maps...
Checked for an aerial photo, found one and emailed it, address here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=40.249872,-80.201397&spn=0.029097,0.042400&t=k&hl=en
Once you have a Street Address of his old station you can pinpoint it on the
map, and then toggle from aerial photo and map.... Google should next add
LAT/Long coordinates to their new great mapping site...
73, DX, de Pat Barthelow AA6EG aa6eg@hotmail.com
>From: el34guy@aol.com
To: n8de@thepoint.net, btippett@alum.mit.edu
CC: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] W3CRA's location
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 12:43:24 -0400
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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