Topband: W1BB

[Tree]

Thanks for sharing.

I looked at this sentence and initially thought it was a typo:

"I had worked him on 150 many times from Kansas."

However, perhaps you meant to say that.  Back in the 1960's and even during
part of the 70's, we mostly scrunched up between 1975 and 2000 as that was
where most of us could run the highest power.  Describing the band as 150
meters is certainly more accurate than calling it 160 meters.

Just curious if the band was commonly referred to as 150 meters back then?
Perhaps it was like the 3.5 MHz band which has two names.

Tree N6TR

On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 2:16 PM <lstoskopf at cox.net> wrote:

> Many years ago I was in Boston for a medical meeting.  Took some time off
> and visited Stu.
>
> In those days no phones with cameras and didn't take a camera so only
> memories.
>
> I had worked him on 150 many times from Kansas.  I still have a QSL from
> that and a SWL  report from his ship with his 2nd wife in the Atlantic.
> The card in the picture.
>
> He gave me a tour of his attic shack.  Turned on the old spark gap rig and
> let me send a bit.  Rattled the ceiling light.
>
> Then we went out to the water tower where he did his major DX ops.  Just
> before that he was out operating one night.  Someone came by and wired the
> padlock.  He ended up on CW contacting someone in  (I think) England in the
> early morning and had them call the Winthrop police to get him out.  He got
> quite a laugh while telling that.  I think he had a rig down in the yacht
> club, but we didn't make that.
>
> He had had a bought of depression just before I was there and we had a
> chat about that.
>
> Great guy, always seemed to be in a suit.  Especially for his weekly trips
> to Boston for a coffee group.
>
> I've told some of this before, but maybe the new guys care.  I also have a
> small pile of 160 newsletters...multicolor mimeo and always a personal note.
>
> N0UU
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