[SCCC] W6AM article

[Dennis Younker NE6I]

Yes, I will definitely get them up on the web shortly.  

--Dennis
 
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  Dennis,

             Those  W6AM pictures are probably priceless.  I think it would be worthwhile to scan them and put them on the SCCC website.  Is this possible?

              One of my favorite W6AM stories is in a 1935 QST when he took a bunch of VHF equipment to the top of Mt Whitney for several days (4 or 5?) and made a handful of contacts.  This was in the days when there was a pack station at Hunter Flat, now known as the Whitney Portal.  Several mules were used to take the equipment up there.  The article discussed the possibility of using a "relay" station on top of a mountain to relay VHF comm between the Bay area and SoCal.  Repeaters came along many years later.  (One of my QTH's is right below Mt Whitney in tha Alabama Hills above Lone Pine.)

              Don Wallace was one of the early pioneer relay station owners.  There are many references in early QSTs to his operations when he was a W9 (I think) in Minnesota.  I wish I had met him.

                                                       73, Kurt, W6PH/1