Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings

["Chuck Hutton" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>]

Speaking of Bill Bailey..... When I bought a house with Beverage real estate
behind it in the mid 70's, the first thing I did after installing the
Beverages was to ask Bill about the phasing units he used with his
TA-catching 1200 foot Beverages. It turned out his units were designed by
Gordon (Bill was not a designer it seemed) and he forwarded the design to
me, which I used happily ever after. I once did a little test with a signal
generator in my basement and found that - with a lot of patience and fine
tuning - it would knock an S9+40 signal down to nothing.


Chuck

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] More phaser musings



> John Callarman would be the best person to answer the question but, to
my recollection, Gordon did not use any phasing equipment at either of
his residences in Watertown, MA.  To digress a bit, he & Ruth first
rented an apartment at 19 Irma Ave and then later bought a house at 48
Hardy Ave - both in Watertown.  Cambridge was just  the location of the
PO box (and of course MIT!)  He definitely had his large (4 feet per
side I believe) altazimuth loop very prominently displayed in his den or
dining room at 19 Irma Ave when I met him in 1969.    Most of his DX
equipment was later destroyed by fire at the 48 Hardy Ave location,
circa 1972.  He didn't talk much about the NH Beverage experiments, at
least not to me.  He was, after all, working for the Government out of
Hanscom AFB in Bedford, MA.
>
> --
> Marc DeLorenzo
> South Dennis, MA
>
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Chuck Hutton" <charlesh3@xxxxxxx>
> > Gordon did have a phasing unit. He was the father of the passive
phasing
> > unit design that Bill Bailey and I used on our Beverages in the
70's. I give
> > Gordon credit for making them into a DX'ers tool, although the
concept had
> > plenty of prior usage outside the hobbyist circle.
> >
> > Someone with a better memory can correct me, but I don't recall his
using
> > phasing units from Cambridge - possibly only from the Beverage
experiments
> > in NH?


My recollection, for what it is worth, agrees with what Marc said.
I am not aware of Gordon using phasing while at Watertown.
In fact I never knew him to use outside wires while there.
I am pretty sure that Bill Bailey (who I believe was based
in Holden, MA) used beverages and possibly phasing as well,
but I recall no details worth reporting on.

I don't have recollection of GPN using, and reporting on,
Beverages. What I do have recollection of, is Gordon
built an Adcock antenna up in NH. This rotatable device
was the heart of the Fraud-Finder, which was one of
several methods (geo. correlation of DF reports from other
DXers widely separated, correlation of fade patterns from
other signals in the same target area) that he used in
efforts to discredit a then well-known DXer living in
Crystal Beach, Ontario and his reports re Radio Swan.
The Adcock may have been built as part of the work that
he never spoke of, and the FF just some moonlighting.

The Boston convention was my last real contact with him
that I recall.

- Bob

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