[SCCC] W6VPH SK

Neil Jessen neiljessen at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 2 16:26:04 EDT 2024


I can confirm that the stuff Joe had up out there wasn't the quality items like W6BH had installed.  I worked quite a few Sweepstakes contests out there at Anza with Joe (and quite a few characters over the years).  I remember going out a few days early every year and having to repair most of the antennas, and sometimes even the towers.  I lost track of how many times we had to repair cables that had been chewed through by the local rats and squirrels.  Joe did have some decent stuff in the air, but it definitely wasn't commercial quality like it was after Jim Day went out there and put things together for W6BH.

And Glenn, although I have never worked HF from Aguanga, that spot Joe had high up on that ridge in Anza played very well.  The takeoff angle to the north and east was phenomenal.  During SS, we were lighting up Europe sometimes more than the US and would have DX calling us during the contest all the time.

These emails have been bringing back a lot of memories!  In fact, just writing out this email made me remember the time that Chip (K7JA) brought a 2 meter beam and worked some EME out there before the contest.  I had forgotten all about that.  Good times!

73,
Neil - N6VHF
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From: SCCC <sccc-bounces at contesting.com> on behalf of Glenn Rattmann <k6na at rattmann.digitalspacemail17.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2024 12:51 PM
To: Dino Darling <dino at kx6d.com>; Phil Minch <ki4mug at gmail.com>; Steve Harrison <k0xp at k0xp.com>
Cc: sccc at contesting.com <sccc at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [SCCC] W6VPH SK

Dino is correct.  Joe bought the raw property and
built the first couple of towers there on the
hill overlooking the town of Anza (I think
55ft-class crankups or perhaps some Rohn
25).  W6BH acquired it later, putting up four UST
89ft crankups.  These were deemed inadequate
after some wind damage, so they were removed.  BH
then hired professionals to put up the existing
guyed, rotating towers with large Yagi stacks.  A
few years ago WA6TQT (already living in the Anza
area) bought the property, with towers, from a
charitable organization whoich had been named in
the estate will, following the death of W6BH.

The monster fixed 20m Yagi which W6VPH helped
build was at the QTH of W6TSW, and this was
definitely in Aguanga, not Anza.  Aguanga  is
high on the  westward-sloping  ground east of
Temecula.   I'd say the  TQT location is superior
overall if you inspect a topo map.
--Glenn K6NA

At 11:31 PM 6/30/2024, 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.
>
>
>________________________________
>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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fscl%2Ffi%2Fgr1vxjsl34k4yubmugkih%2FA_modern_giant_Yagi-Bathker-Ansley-Hachten.pdf%3Frlkey%3D3r8orsthy5rz7168c4ej698ml%26dl%3D0&data=05%7C02%7C%7Ca00e5853f3d74094403a08dc9ad066ea%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638555467139707424%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=s7lobmvtK0AB0qKqVFdJJLq6mysIayeg4Lk1LXqA8%2FE%3D&reserved=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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjplarc.org%2Fnewsletters%2F1996%2Ffeb%2Ffeb96.html&data=05%7C02%7C%7Ca00e5853f3d74094403a08dc9ad066ea%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638555467139720535%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0pNTuHnXXWYTvPoaVQTYbzY3myZkee0LtmZ5Dpu5L0w%3D&reserved=0<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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fdocument%2F88217%2Fauthors%23authors&data=05%7C02%7C%7Ca00e5853f3d74094403a08dc9ad066ea%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638555467139724213%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=LckAdKmMBrevmgNZ7yn4iSWGDBWmt1X9m%2BUP%2BL9j1eY%3D&reserved=0<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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