Could be. Here's some photos of Don's station, FWIW: http://www.qsl.net/ne6i/w6am/shack.html . Alpha amplifiers, and huge tall racks that look like they might require one of those Alphas to drive them. But who can say for sure? :-)
For whatever reason, there's what seems to be a lot of hype about W6AM's rhombics. Such as: "The W6AM station was legendary around the world. Don could beat you in a pileup for some obscure African station no matter what band, and even if you were on the east coast. And him in Southern California. "Don was #1 on ARRL's DXCC Honor Roll, and you didn't argue. No matter where you were, no matter what you were running, Don had beaten you in a pileup. More than once." Beat anyone on the east coast to Europe from California every time? I'm sorry, but a rhombic is just not that good, even if you DO have one pointed at every direction of the compass as W6AM did. More info and photos: http://www.qsl.net/ne6i/w6am/recollections.html http://www.qsl.net/ne6i/w6am/others.html 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Carl <[email protected]> wrote: > I dont see anything from then that disagrees with what I said today Mike, > > QRO in those days was a smaller ratio from what is daily these days. > _________________ Topband Reflector
