[SCCC] W6VPH SK

[Phil Minch]

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
> >
> >
> > 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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