On 2/11/2012 3:32 PM, ZR wrote: > . >> I remember when 160 meter and EME enthusiast Sam Harris (forgot his >> call) used the Arecibo Space Telescope for moon bounce. His efforts >> began a whole new resurgence of interest in this communications mode. >> now even some DX-peditions are trying it. > > That was the birth of EME, not a resurgance. Sam, W1FZJ, made the > first EME contact just a few years before moving from MA to PR. I was > one of his antenna "apes" in MA as his favorite saying was "if it > stayed up during a NE winter it wasnt big enough". His monster 144 and > 432 Cushcraft collinear arrays on the big towers were always shedding > parts. > > While Sam was a big gun on 75 SSB with a 30L1 driving PP 750TH's to a > Lazy H I dont remember him even having gear for 160 as he was using S > Line with a R-390 as a 2nd receiver. > > Carl > KM1H > > Sam Harris, W1FZJ/KP4 was my first 160 meter contact with Puerto Rico when I was active in Minnesota a half a century ago....and I still remember what a thrill it was with a DX-100 and an inverted L.
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