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- Subject: OT - VE1ZZ
- From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 04:41:15 +0000 (UTC)
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For those of us in medium wave DX who also like to know about what hams refer to as Topband or 160m (1800-2000 kHz), you may want to read of the passing of a true giant in the hobby, Jack VE1ZZ of Nova Scotia.
http://lists.contesting.com/archives//html/topband/2018-10/msg00105.html
The write-up by Jeff K1ZM, a published author and one of the East Coast's other big guns, is well worth a read.
Jack's set-up, like those of last century's W1BB in MA and W6AM in CA, was a coastal superstation that could hear a pin drop in a mud hut on the other side of the planet. The K1ZM write-up goes into some of the antenna and equipment choices and d-i-y skills that, along with the salt water proximity, made VE1ZZ among the biggest signals on the band even in far-off deserts and jungles.
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Mark Connelly, WA1ION
South Yarmouth, MA
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