[SCCC] W6VPH SK

Mon Jul 1 06:35:39 EDT 2024

The address given for W6TSW in the IEEE article was in Aguanga, about 20 
miles SW of what's now WA6TQT's QTH in Anza.

Greg, N6PM

On 7/1/2024 12:23 AM, Steve Harrison wrote:
> 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
>
>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *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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