[WVARC] Bios

[Leigh S. Jones]

I like to pretend that I'm not old enough to forget
things like that.  Matt and I spent 24 hours listening
to heavy hum levels, nasty hum levels, from his 
receiver with the bad filter cap or something.  By
that time his EICO 720 had blown a transformer
and he had to replace it with a lower voltage 
transformer.  We were running about 25 watts
input, and the antenna was a 16 foot length of
tubing with a loading coil at the base called an
18V.  Compared to the 18V a Gotham vertical 
was luxury at 22 feet in length.  We made almost 
180 contacts on CW, and our SSB station managed
about a third as many running 150 watts.  Had no
tent for the CW station, and came home quite 
sunburned.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Futterman, N6PN" <n6pn@prodigy.net>
To: <wvarc@kkn.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 9:42 AM
Subject: Re: [WVARC] Bios


> Matt wrote:
> >In 1966 or 1967, there was a seminal Field Day...
> 
> Now I remember.  It was 1967.  In 1966 Leigh
> and I and a great group of other guys went to
> Sierra Palona for Field Day.  Remember that Leigh?
> 
> 
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