[SCCC] W6VPH SK

Mon Jul 1 03:23:37 EDT 2024

On 6/30/2024 11:31 PM, Dino Darling wrote:
> Are you sure Steve? I'm pretty familiar with TQT's place even before
> W6BH owned it. It was Joe Clement W6MR place. I don't remember the
> multitude 20M beam, but it could have predated my knowledge.

I was asking it as a question, Dino; I have no idea what's been built in
SoCal between 1981 and 2018 as I lived elsewhere between those years and
never heard anything about "the homeland". I just wondered if it was a
possibility, since both QTHs are in the Anza area.

Steve, K0XP

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> *From:* SCCC <sccc-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Phil Minch
> <ki4mug at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 30, 2024 8:54:57 PM
> *To:* Steve Harrison <k0xp at k0xp.com>
> *Cc:* sccc at contesting.com <sccc at contesting.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [SCCC] W6VPH SK
>
> As an IEEE Life Member, I'm surprised that I couldn't purchase this. There
> were plenty of other articles available to me.
>
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 7:25 PM Steve Harrison <k0xp at k0xp.com> wrote:
>
> > Very interesting, Mike! Was that the same QTH that WA6TQT now owns (he's
> > also near Anza)?? I wonder how long they kept that yagi up? The first
> > "monster yagi" I ever heard of was built by, I think, WA6ZZK, back in
> > the late-60s or early 70s, also on 20m phone (WHY are all those monsters
> > designed for the phone band?? CW would have been a much better choice
> > 8-) and may have been one of what you referenced in your mention of
> > WA6ZZK below. I remember seeing photos of it displayed at a SCDXC
> > meeting around that time frame. The largest 40m yagi I've ever seen was
> > the 5-element full-sized monster built on Rohn 25G tower section, I
> > think, that K6UYC (now K6RR) had on a self-supporting 100+-foot 4-legged
> > tower in Huntington Beach, a block from PCH, also during the '71 - '73
> > time frame. And boy, did that one work! I never got to use it in a
> > contest, but I did use it one morning after a contest when I stopped by
> > Bob's QTH on his invitation to "play around" for awhile. I then had to
> > drive him to work at a local hospital 8-)
> >
> > Steve, K0XP
> >
> >
> >
> > On 6/30/2024 6:42 PM, Michael Tope wrote:
> > > Since the IEEE article is pay-walled, I put a copy of the IEEE article
> > > in my dropbox folder:
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gr1vxjsl34k4yubmugkih/A_modern_giant_Yagi-Bathker-Ansley-Hachten.pdf?rlkey=3r8orsthy5rz7168c4ej698ml&dl=0
> <https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/gr1vxjsl34k4yubmugkih/A_modern_giant_Yagi-Bathker-Ansley-Hachten.pdf?rlkey=3r8orsthy5rz7168c4ej698ml&dl=0>
> > >
> > >
> > > 73, Mike W4EF...................
> > >
> > > On 6/30/2024 12:57 AM, Michael Tope wrote:
> > >> I am saddened to report that Bud Ansley, W6VPH lost his long battle
> > >> with Alzheimer's disease on June 19, 2024. I first met Bud when I
> > >> started working in the Communications Ground System Section of JPL in
> > >> 1997. Bud was an R&D technician who built RF equipment used in NASA's
> > >> Deep Space Network as well as occasional prototypes for spaceflight
> > >> hardware.
> > >>
> > >> Bud loved to talk about his contesting and DX exploits and I spent
> > >> many a lunch hour in his lab talking with him about all things real
> > >> ham radio. These included Bud's operations from various HF
> > >> super-stations such as Dr Phil Coussen WA6ZZK's QTH in Lancaster and
> > >> Jack Hachten W6TSW's high mesa QTH in Anza. Circa 1990 Bud built a 13
> > >> element 20 meter Yagi designed by Dan Bathker K6BLG at Hachten's Anza
> > >> QTH. It was fixed at 15 degrees north for working Europe short path.
> > >> A short article on this monster antenna along with a photo of Bud on
> > >> one of the towers that supported it can be found here:
> > >> (https://jplarc.org/newsletters/1996/feb/feb96.html). There is also
> > >> an article on this antenna in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and
> > >> Propagation (unfortunately it is behind a paywall):
> > >> https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/88217/authors#authors
> > >>
> > >> In addition to his many exploits on HF, Bud was an avid satellite and
> > >> EME operator. On his small lot in Monrovia he had a fairly large EME
> > >> array. If I remember correctly it was a pair of very long-boom 2
> > >> meter Yagis stacked horizontally along with four large 70CM yagis in
> > >> an H-frame all on a common AZ-EL rotator. Bud also enjoyed building
> > >> homebrew amplifiers for both HF, VHF, and UHF and from what I
> > >> understand some of these amplifiers (in the style of the time he came
> > >> up in) had considerable headroom 🙂. In addition to working many DXCC
> > >> entities on satellite, Bud traveled to Haiti as a guest of Dan HH2MC
> > >> to put HH on satellite.
> > >>
> > >> Bud was a veteran of the US Navy. Services will be held at 10:30 AM
> > >> on Monday July 8th at the Riverside National Cemetery.
> > >>
> > >> 73, Mike W4EF
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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