[MRCA] Able Archer

[Gary Decker]

Walt, maybe we look into this sight in Bucks county. Relatively close, and there is still some structure remaining and is on public property. 
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    On Thursday, May 25, 2017 11:58 AM, Ken Downs <krtdowns at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
 

 Mike,
Thanks for the info on the park. I think we stopped in a "scenic view" sort of small parking area right off the highway.
And I had a brain cramp this morning - the rig was a Lafayette HE45B, not HB-45. My first rig - how could I forget?
I was living with my parents in an apartment on the second floor of a two-story wood framed house in Asbury Park, and as renters, a good antenna was not in the cards. I used two dipoles inside my bedroom - one north-south, the other east-west. My best DX with my eight
big watts of a.m. fone was Chicago. I did often hear stations in the southeast U.S. and not infrequently in Bermuda and the Bahamas.
Working them with one crystal, low power, and a zero-gain antenna was too much to pull off. I did try though. Mostly due to TVI I
got my General class ticket in '65 and said farewell to six meters. By then we were in a single-family house in Wanamassa (just
outside Asbury Park) and I was able to put up outdoor dipoles and a vertical for HF. Much better!

The Big Gun in the area at that time was the "Wild Young Rabbit," John, WA2WYR down the coast a few miles in Avon, NJ. On 6 meters
he had a half-gallon of plate-modulated a.m. and a real antenna. I believe he snagged quite a bit of DX. His neighbors, trying to watch WCBS-TV on channel 2 from NYC were not so enthusiastic about it. Can you say "Front-End Overload" ? Last I heard, John did well in the vanity callsign program and was sporting "W2YR" as his mature ham callsign. We chatted briefly on 160 a few years ago.

Thanks very much for prompting this stroll through Memory Lane. I was in the army from 1967-1987 and in Germany for at least one of
the Able Archer exercises. Can't say I remember much about how that went, but I guess the Warsaw Pact folks couldn't take a joke. All in
a day's work. Germany was more peaceful than VN, but it did have its moments. At least in VN I was armed...

Anyway, have a great Memorial Day weekend. Please take a moment to remember the reason for the holiday. Thanks again
and Very 73!

Ken
.On Thu, 25 May 2017 09:27:36 -0400 (EDT), MICHAEL ST ANGELO wrote:

 Ken,There is a park nearby at the highest point on the hill. They claim to be the highest point on the east coast between Acadia Maine and Yucatan Mexico.I remember the HB45. You were between sunspot peaks of 1957-58 and 1969. How was propagation on 6m in 1964?Mike N2MS_____________________________________________________________
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