In the mid-70s Gordon was working on something he called the TWESPA (Traveling Wave Electronically Steerable Phased Array). I never learned the technical details, but the name suggests phased Beverages. He once sent me a tape with some examples of what it could do. I don't remember what was on the tape, but I think it had an example of switching between stations 180 degrees apart.
Bruce Chuck Hutton wrote: > Speaking of Bill Bailey..... When I bought a house with Beverage real estate > behind it in the mid 70's, the first thing I did after installing the > Beverages was to ask Bill about the phasing units he used with his > TA-catching 1200 foot Beverages. It turned out his units were designed by > Gordon (Bill was not a designer it seemed) and he forwarded the design to > me, which I used happily ever after. I once did a little test with a signal > generator in my basement and found that - with a lot of patience and fine > tuning - it would knock an S9+40 signal down to nothing. > > > Chuck > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Bob Foxworth > Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 9:08 PM > To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America > Subject: Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings > > > > >> John Callarman would be the best person to answer the question but, to >> > my recollection, Gordon did not use any phasing equipment at either of > his residences in Watertown, MA. To digress a bit, he & Ruth first > rented an apartment at 19 Irma Ave and then later bought a house at 48 > Hardy Ave - both in Watertown. Cambridge was just the location of the > PO box (and of course MIT!) He definitely had his large (4 feet per > side I believe) altazimuth loop very prominently displayed in his den or > dining room at 19 Irma Ave when I met him in 1969. Most of his DX > equipment was later destroyed by fire at the 48 Hardy Ave location, > circa 1972. He didn't talk much about the NH Beverage experiments, at > least not to me. He was, after all, working for the Government out of > Hanscom AFB in Bedford, MA. > >> -- >> Marc DeLorenzo >> South Dennis, MA >> >> >> -------------- Original message ---------------------- >> From: "Chuck Hutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> Gordon did have a phasing unit. He was the father of the passive >>> > phasing > >>> unit design that Bill Bailey and I used on our Beverages in the >>> > 70's. I give > >>> Gordon credit for making them into a DX'ers tool, although the >>> > concept had > >>> plenty of prior usage outside the hobbyist circle. >>> >>> Someone with a better memory can correct me, but I don't recall his >>> > using > >>> phasing units from Cambridge - possibly only from the Beverage >>> > experiments > >>> in NH? >>> > > > My recollection, for what it is worth, agrees with what Marc said. > I am not aware of Gordon using phasing while at Watertown. > In fact I never knew him to use outside wires while there. > I am pretty sure that Bill Bailey (who I believe was based > in Holden, MA) used beverages and possibly phasing as well, > but I recall no details worth reporting on. > > I don't have recollection of GPN using, and reporting on, > Beverages. What I do have recollection of, is Gordon > built an Adcock antenna up in NH. This rotatable device > was the heart of the Fraud-Finder, which was one of > several methods (geo. correlation of DF reports from other > DXers widely separated, correlation of fade patterns from > other signals in the same target area) that he used in > efforts to discredit a then well-known DXer living in > Crystal Beach, Ontario and his reports re Radio Swan. > The Adcock may have been built as part of the work that > he never spoke of, and the FF just some moonlighting. > > The Boston convention was my last real contact with him > that I recall. > > - Bob > > _______________________________________________ > IRCA mailing list > [email protected] > http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the > original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the > IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers > > For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > To Post a message: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > IRCA mailing list > [email protected] > http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/irca > > Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original > contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its > editors, publishing staff, or officers > > For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org > > To Post a message: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ IRCA mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/irca Opinions expressed in messages on this mailing list are those of the original contributors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the IRCA, its editors, publishing staff, or officers For more information: http://www.ircaonline.org To Post a message: [email protected]
