Topband: Spam:****, Re: Amazing Video of an extremely large circular array

[Herb Schoenbohm]

On 2/11/2012 3:32 PM, ZR wrote:
> .
>> I remember when 160 meter and EME enthusiast Sam Harris (forgot his
>> call) used the Arecibo Space Telescope for moon bounce.  His efforts
>> began a whole new resurgence of interest in this communications mode.
>> now even some DX-peditions are trying it.
>
> That was the birth of EME, not a resurgance. Sam, W1FZJ, made the 
> first EME contact just a few years before moving from MA to PR. I was 
> one of his antenna "apes" in MA as his favorite saying was "if it 
> stayed up during a NE winter it wasnt big enough". His monster 144 and 
> 432 Cushcraft collinear arrays on the big towers were always shedding 
> parts.
>
> While Sam was a big gun on 75 SSB with a 30L1 driving PP 750TH's to a 
> Lazy H I dont remember him even having gear for 160 as he was using S 
> Line with a R-390 as a 2nd receiver.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
Sam Harris, W1FZJ/KP4 was my first 160 meter contact with Puerto Rico 
when I was active in Minnesota a half a century ago....and I still 
remember what a thrill it was with a DX-100 and an inverted L.


Herb, KV4FZ