[Boatanchors] HT-20

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At 07:45 PM 6/18/2010, D C *Mac* Macdonald wrote:

>If I remember correctly, HT-20 transmitters were what was taken
>on the big (first?) DXpedition to FO8AJ, Clipperton Island back
>in the mid-to-late 1950s.  Pics of the rigs MAY have been on the
>cover issue of CQ magazine that covered that operation.
>I have forgotten which Halli receiver was used, but it might have
>been the SX-101 series.

It was Bob Dennison, W0NWX, 1954, SX-88 and HT-20.  And he hauled them
both up off the rolling boat with an A-frame winch mounted on a
rock outcropping.  Whew!  Could today's DXpeditioners handle this?:-)

Perry w8au