[ADXA] Wayne Overbeck N6NB/K6YNB SK

[Dennis Schaefer]

Pat,

I’m thinking the FD in question was at the church camp pavilion somewhere
near Wynne.     I seem to remember Bill, WA5AVO, Sam Lehman, K5VBF, and Sam
Andrews, WA5HNN.  Maybe also Ron Evans, K5XK.  The one who might be here is
Steve, W5KI, ex-WA5KUD.  I think there is a picture - I’ll try to find it.

Yes, the stacked EDZ’s for 10M should have been a bomb but the band was
completely closed.  The 170 foot dipole fed with ladder line proved hard to
beat for an all-band FD antenna.

Good memories!
Dennis/RZ

On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 12:02 AM <patw5vy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dennis,
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> I don’t remember a FD with you using a Quad.  You have done a lot of
> antenna testing at Field Day sites over the years.  I remember the Lazy H
> you built for 10M one year and 10 was dead as a hammer the whole weekend!
> Even with the gain of the Lazy H it was still dead.
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> When I first became interested in VHF/UHF Roving I had the pleasure of
> having dinner with Wayne, N6NB (SK), Marshall, K5QE (SK) and Army, AE5P at
> a restaurant in Nacogdoches, TX.  I was on my way home from the Belton
> Hamfest and Marshall had a couple of HP Server power supplies for me and
> invited me to join them for dinner.  Wayne had been in the area with a
> Rover Pack to operate in one of the VHF contests.  He had his Tower Trailer
> (6M-10GHz on a 45 foot crank-up). The added elevation provided by the tower
> trailer really helped on the microwave bands in the “Piney Woods” of East
> Texas.   Marshal had a very nice Multi-op VHF/UHF/Microwave contest station
> in Hemphill, TX.  Wayne was a perpetual winner in the VHF Roving category.
> Army had a very nice 10 band Rover and was very active in East Texas.
> Needless to say, I mostly listened during dinner!
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> The next weekend I attended the Mt. Airy VHF Radio Club (Pack Rats)
> conference in Ben Salem, PA  My youngest daughter was living in
> Philadelphia so I got to do radio and visit with her.  When I drove into
> the hotel parking lot there was Wayne’s Tower Trailer with the crank-up
> fully extended!  He was one of the presenters at the conference…topic was
> probably some aspect of VHF+ Roving.   Early on, Wayne did extensive
> testing of a HF 2 Element Quad versus a 3 Element Yagi.  He operated from a
> beach in Southern California.  I don’t recall the results….think it was
> close to a tie in most cases.  I think his testing was a response to the
> notion (at the time) that a 2l Quad would beat the socks off a 3L Yagi!
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> Wayne was a regular at VHF Conferences.   Check out his website N6NB.com.
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> As Dennis stated, he had many talents and significant accomplishments in
> all his endeavors.  He had a kind nature and never bragged about his
> accomplishments (probably means he wasn’t a DXer!).
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> 73,
>
> Pat, W5VY
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> *From:* adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> *On
> Behalf Of *Dennis Schaefer
> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 22, 2025 9:13 PM
> *To:* ADXA <ADXA at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject:* [ADXA] Wayne Overbeck N6NB/K6YNB SK
>
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> Wayne Overbeck had significant professional and amateur radio
> accomplishments.   He had several articles in QST about portable operation,
> and was largely responsible for my interest in portable ops.  He covered
> portable abtennas and VHF/UHF  roving, etc.
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> Based on one of his articles, I built a 10/15M cubical quad for Field
> Day.  It had separate feedlines for each band and we were somehow able to
> use both bands simultaneously without blowing anything up.  We were
> probably using tube rigs.   There may be someone in this group who
> remembers running pileups on both bands at the same time on one antenna
> with no filters.  (Nick, Pat, Steve??).   I think it was somewhere in
> Eastern Arkansas in the 70’s.
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> I hadn’t heard much about him for several years, but he came up as a
> Facebook friend a few months ago.  Although of advanced age, he was still
> very sharp and interesting.
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> He seemed to be doing well, but his wife announced a few days ago that he
> passed away.   I don’t think he was a DX chaser, but it wouldn’t surprise
> me if he had achievements in that area, too.  He was a good man and a good
> ham.
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> 73,
>
> Dennis/RZ
>
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