Topband: Don W6AM and Gus W4BPD

[john]

wonder if there is a way of pulling these articles and making a book 
like collection--bet they would sell--
I started in 1955 and really consider the 50,60, and some 70s as the 
golden yrs of ham radio.
at 72 yrs, I am rapidly running out of sun spot cycles, but sure do 
relish the memories of days gone by
73 john w8wej
On 7/28/2013 18:14, Don Johnson wrote:
> 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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