[WVARC] Contractors point

[K6MR]

 Yep, I think it was WB6JZC:  was he the one that worked at Electronics
City? (there's a blast from the past).  I remember he had it in his front
yard.  Guimont moved it first to the place in Van Nuys along the railroad
tracks.  I ran across a photo I have taken from the top of one of the poles.
Then both of them went to Contractor's.  I remember the crane company didn't
get one of them set straight, so Clint (WB6WIT) and I had to straighten it
out.  That was just before the 1971 earthquake.  

Man, that was a long time ago.

Ken  (Magnet)

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From: wvarc-bounces at kkn.net [mailto:wvarc-bounces at kkn.net] On Behalf Of Tree
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:53 AM
To: wvarc at kkn.net
Subject: Re: [WVARC] Contractors point

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:34:41PM -0700, K6MR wrote:

> Doesn't look like the 100 foot phone poles that Guimont put up there 
> survived.  My wife's parents live just below the point in Sylmar, and 
> I remember recently looking up there and not seeing them.

Yeah - they haven't been up there for some time now.

I used to be able to look out my office window and see it back in the late
70's when I was working in Woodland Hills.

There was a fire that went through there at least once - and I remember
someone saying something about one of the poles being "dried" out and not
safe to climb.

I think one of those poles was actually up at W7NI's place (he had some kind
of WB6 call I think back then).  It got moved up there sometime around 1970.

Can anyone else find their antenna farms on that web site
(www.local.live.com)?

You can also find the Mount Lukens FD site just by typing in Mount Lukens.

Also - if you move up the hill and across the road from the contractors
point view, you can see the big concrete slab where I assume the
W6SilverDollar FD site was (insert the WB6UHF "SilverDollar" voice here).

Tree
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