[ADXA] 6M - Last comments.....Promise

[Crownhaven]

Thanks Pat.  If anyone is interested in these antennas, here is a 
snapshot.  HF DF.  They are still in operation in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wullenweber


Steve, QQ

On 7/11/2020 7:41 PM, patw5vy at gmail.com wrote:
>
> One last post about 6M.  Yesterday I worked Martin, GM8IEM, in 
> Clashmore, Lochinver, in extreme NW Scotland on 6M FT8.  I was 
> stationed at RAF Edzell in the lowlands of Scotland during my Navy 
> enlistment in the late ‘60s.  The runways at RAF Edzell were closed 
> and a big Circular Disposed Antenna Array was built.  The base was 
> about 10 miles inland from the North Sea.  This was during Vietnam and 
> at the height of the “Cold War” so you can guess who we were listening 
> to.  Google “AN/FRD-10".  I worked shifts and had a couple of days off 
> between shift cycles.  I had a right hand drive VW Bug and used my 
> days off to explore Scotland.  I drove pretty far up the NW coast to 
> the town of Ullapool. The west coast of Scotland is a bit like our 
> Pacific Northwest coast…raw and beautiful.   Martin, GM8IEM, lives 
> about 45 miles north of Ullapool.  I sent him an email telling of my 
> visit to Ullapool and the Isle of Skye. He answered my email and it 
> turns out Martin was a Chartered Engineer,  (our Prof Engineer) doing 
> RF Design  for Plessy/Siemens in the south of England and took early 
> retirement in 1999.  He is an avid Medium Wave DXer….AM Broadcast 
> band.  He chose his location in Scotland to be an optimum, low noise, 
> location to do world wide AM band DXing.  He has beverages for the BC 
> band in several directions.  He is the first operator in the UK to 
> hear AM Broadcast stations in New Zealand since the 1930s.  He has 
> heard stations in Hawaii, West Coast of USA…all around the world.  
> Martin took a grand bus tour of the US back in the late 60s…got as 
> close as Kansas City to AR.
>
> Today I worked Clive, GM3POI, on Orkney Island.  Clive and I had 
> breakfast one morning in the Crown Plaza in Dayton.  I think it was 
> about five years ago.  He is an interesting fellow and I remember his 
> comparison of Dayton to Friedrichshafen (Big EU Ham Radio gathering is 
> southern Germany).  His assessment of Hara Arena was the equivalent of 
> an outhouse!  But, there was lots of cool stuff and folks at Dayton 
> that made up for it.
>
> I love ham radio and the connections it generates.
>
> Today, I wasn’t the “Big Gun” on 6M. Frank, W5BPT, who live 12 airline 
> miles from me was hearing/working EU stations that I wasn’t hearing at 
> all. That went on for 30 minutes before the “spotlight” shined on me.  
> Also, I heard Joel, W5ZN working Ukraine…no joy here.  As Bill, K5FUV, 
> posted…it’s all about propagation.  I do think that having a decent 
> antenna and a bit of power can help squeeze a QSO out of the “gray 
> area” between good propagation and no propagation.
>
> 73,
>
> Pat, W5VY
>
>
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