Topband: Don W6AM and Gus W4BPD

[Don Johnson]

I sure remember the 73 magazine articles by Gus, W4BPD. What a DXer and humorous speaker/writer. Probably my most memorable club meeting was when I met him in the early 60's. I have almost all those 73 magazines with his articles.
Regarding antennas, Gus did say a rare call was worth a lot of dB gain.
I also have broken pileups where the operator on the DX end recognized my voice!  Something to be said for the DX op knowing your call and voice. I suspect W6AM and others were sometimes recognized in the pile ups because they were known to the DX op or the DX op was expecting to hear them early on in a DX perdition. Having been on the rare DX end myself, I have been able to pick out known calls from a mass of almost equal strength signals. I think "Call recognition" in dB must be added to antenna gain.
73,
Don
N4DJ

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