. > 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 _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
