[SCCC] W6VPH SK

[Michael Tope]

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

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.
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> 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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