[SCCC] W6VPH SK
Steve Harrison
k0xp at k0xp.com
Sun Jun 30 22:18:01 EDT 2024
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
>
>
> 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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