[WVARC] Field Day

[Leigh S. Jones]

Bill Guimont, who was one of our Field Day participants, had
been W6GP while still in California and got the call W7KW
when he moved to AZ.  I visited him several times out there
to help him build up his antennas.  He put up 4 170 foot
towers (AB105) with big yagis on them.  It made a great QST
cover photo when he used hot air balloons in lieu of cranes
to hoist the yagis to the top of the towers.  Bill passed away
more than a decade ago.

I last saw Ted Gillett at the Visalia DX convention a few
years ago.  He was getting ready to take down the towers
at his QTH in Panorama City and planning to move in with
his new girl friend in Lake Elsinore.  I told him I'd like to buy
the 20 T-15 sections, but he didn't contact me about them --
I believe that KJ6Y might have quickly resold them.  Ted
passed away about 3 years ago.  He was at the top of the
DXCC honor roll.

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Subject: RE: [WVARC] Field Day


> Speaking of Clint:  I talked with him a few years ago.  He is still
in Utah,
> works for a satellite company of some nature.  He has a bunch of
kids who
> are all doing Mormon missionary stuff.  No radio things though.
>
> I saw Bill Guimont once after he moved to Arizona.  He had a great
place out
> there, but this was sometime around 1980.  I don't even know if he's
still
> alive.
>
> Leigh (or anyone?):  Though not technically a WVARC member, anyone
know
> about Ted Gillett (W6HX)?  I saw that he moved somewhere out east
(Apple
> Valley?) but don't know anything else.
>
> Ken WK6F
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wvarc-admin@kkn.net [mailto:wvarc-admin@kkn.net]On Behalf Of
Tree
> Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 9:37 PM
> To: wvarc@kkn.net
> Subject: [WVARC] Field Day
>
>
>
> One of the neatest field days up at CP was when the whole San
> Fernando Valley was fogged in - and it just looked like a carpet
> that you could go out and walk on.  That was cool.
>
> Of course - I will never forget driving up there and seeing
> those 40 meter beams that Magnet and Clint put up.  Wow.
>
> For awhile, when working in Woodland Hills on Oxnard Street, I
> had a window office that I could stare out and see CP.
>
> W7NI, who lives up here, lived in Canoga Park for awhile - and
> had dealings with W6GP (Bill Guimont).  I guess Stan sold him one
> of the poles - or something like that.  Stan had to climb
> one of the poles to get his rotator or something off of it.
>
> Stan I think had the call WB6ENX - and some of you guys probably
> worked him.  I think he moved back up north just before I got
> my license (December 1967).
>
> My first ever ham radio QSO was at the WB6SST/WB6UHF station (it
> was before it was the WA6CSN station too), and I said hello to
> Matt on SSB.  This was before the Swan 350 was moved into the
> garage.
>
> My very first QSO with my call was in the garage - on 15 meters,
> using the Ranger 1 and the 350 as a receiver.
>
> John later loaned me a 1 watt XTAL controlled rig - that I could
> use to work Matt and John to play chess games over the air.
>
> Can't wait to see scans of some of the old bulletins.  I don't think
> I have any anymore.
>
> Tree N6TR / WB6ZVC
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