TopBand: Re: VS6DO

[Earl W Cunningham]

On Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:43:57 +0100 "Ragnar Otterstad"
<danmec@inet.uni-c.dk> writes:
>As one who had the pleasure  of knowing the true gentleman and visiting
and 
>operating from VS6DOs station let me tell you it was not " a tuned wire
thrown 
>out of the window". It was tuned all right but going up from the roof !
>
>Paul lived on the top floor and had access to the whole roof, where he
had
>installed a tower with his beam etc.The antenna on 160 was very high
above
>the ground, as it was a high rise building on the Kowloon side.  But he
had
>plenty of noise too.
>(snip)
==================
In a letter Paul included with his QSL to me in 1981, he described his
160m antenna to me as "a wire thrown out the window", or words to that
effect.  Perhaps he was joshing me?

73, Earl, K6SE



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