[TowerTalk] Open Wire Line, W1EVT, 5BDXCC

[n4kg@juno.com]

Clarifications:

Page 101 of the January 1970 QST lists the first 7  5BDXCC
winners.   They are:

1 -  W4QCW (now W4DR)
2 -  DL7AA
3 -  W1EVT
4 -  W8GZ
5 -  W8BT (now W8AH?)
6 -  W4IC
7 -  W1AX

On Fri, 15 Sep 2000  Joe Reisert <jreisert@jlc.net> writes:
> Tom,
> 
> Don't forget to mention that all of W1EVT's open wire runs are 
> several  1,000 feet long from the culvert under the road to the 
> top of a high  hill  quite a way away and he mostly operates 
> 80 and some 40 Meters.
> 
> At 06:48 AM 9/14/00 , n4kg@juno.com wrote:
> 
> >Just because open wire line isn't a viable solution for YOU
> >doesn't mean that it isn't a viable solution for OTHERS
> >and should be banned from existence as you seem to argue.
> 
> I believe your claim about Clem's his 5BDXCC is bogus. I believe 
> W4DR holds  that distinction and I doubt that Clem would have 
> ever claimed he  was > working on it no less apply for same!  
>The Clem I know is just a  DXer and  not an award chaser or
> competitor of that sort. He enjoys working  JA's at 
> sunrise and on the winter sunset long path around Christmas.
> 
> >W1EVT, winner of the first 5BDXCC, uses 4 wire open wire
> >lines to run under the road and up the hill to his 19 towers
> >with 3 sets of stacked wire arrays (two half waves in phase
> >stacked every half wavelength) for every band.
> 

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