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74 years!

Nice example of various portable ham antennas. Questions: Do you and the station being contacted most always report 5/9 during contests? Reason I ask is some stations were a little weaker. Also what is the 3rd number? Regards from Nebraska, John N2AO

Great video! Steve has always been one of my favs!

My dad built one of these back in the late 50s. He strung a wire antenna out a back window from the house to the garage (about 100+/- a few feet). It worked amazingly well even on shortwave. I wish I still had it, if for nothing else than the nostalgia value.

AJ1G here , Chris from Stonington in SE CT. The auroral scatter propagation was wild here between about 4 PM and 8 PM EDT on Friday May 10 . Worked about 40 stations as far west as Minnesota, down to Virginia, out to southern Ontario a d up to PEI, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and all over the Northeast with just 100 watts on CW to a little 2 element 6 meter beam pointed north the whole time. What little SSB I heard on 6 meters was so smeared by the Doppler shift caused by the unstable reflection/refraction off the auroral 3:40 curtains that is was impossible to understand. Only have worked auroral scatter here a couple of times over more than 40 years from here. The stuff last week was definitely to wildest!

Cool!

My father was a ham radio operator. I believe he was able to talk to someone on shuttle once.

Strange resonation.

Thanks for recording this, very cool to hear!

Dave, a Nice overview K0UO

That's sweet! I have enjoyed the same thing here in West Virginia.

There's something hanging down from bal/nr Knob..a piece of something.😢

back in the day i wish i bought 10 of them kg6mn

Jim, I have a similar but also different story. I was born in 49' a little younger that you. My latest license is a General class KD9OAM. It is great to hear about your radio life.

April Fool's Day!

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Legend has it, the dark-eyed junco is still there to this day 😅

Nice Loof Lirpa! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I have met a lot of interesting and intelligent people in my 32 years as a licensed ham operator! But Bob Heil! Wow! He has to be the happiest and most interesting man I have ever had the privilege of knowing! His talents have no end and his passion to teach and tell you all about everything he knows is unmeasurable! It’s rare to meet a person whose passion makes them so happy that they will do anything to get you excited about it! Be it pipe organs, ham radios, antique t-birds! Bob could talk hours on end with such enthusiasm you WILL LISTEN! Ok, I’ve probably went long enough with this comment but hey! Knowing we lost Bob this last week I’m having a 😢😢 hard time accepting he can no longer answer my emails and my crazy questions! Bob was everybody’s “Elmer” and I am sure there are thousands of hams affected by his passing! 73 Bob 😢 you are already missed!

rip bob heil

Mike - are you saying that since a straight key and a paddle require different Keyer Types to be selected in the cw menu, only the one that matches the menu selection will work?

Stephen's another great guy who has done a lot for the club!

Optical illusion. Reflection of fire on the glass.

They're a great couple!

Excellent interview! John is a stellar guy. Well done.

Far out. Great video.

This was great! Larry has had such an interesting work life. He's done some really helpful things with our club too!

I have the 756 pro love it but got.to find a new LCD screen got.that whitish egg looking thing

That’s my grandpa!!!!

Love this series!

Nice rig

Enjoyed these interviews with Bob Heil. Thanks!

"Hey! Why don't you grow up it's rather pathetic"

nice exactly what I would have used (rotor and rooftop). I unfortunately settled for the Yaesu 450 and a Rohn 5 foot tripod due to light wind load. Put 3 VHF/UHF yagis on top of Yaesu, wind load about 2+ so I am OK. I just came across the opportunity to get a Glen Martin in mint condition, 1 year late so I am going to pass on it. Too many holes in roof and also need forcement. N2SLO

Dave I ❤ this film. Feel free to message or text me

I can't even remember what the HELL Isaid😂

Two great guys that have done the Ham world wonders.

Where? What venue?

Nice rig, I've got the PROII. By the way you left the rit button pushed.

Thanks for another great interview, and thank you Dr. Heil for great two minutes of whatever. 73'

Wow! Just such an amazing life and work. Glad to see it documented now and not later. Radio and particularly ham radio and rock n roll go hand in hand so much of the time. Many of the pioneer studio engineers had some sort of foot or step up from radio. The electric music , immediate example, -the electric guitar changed the face of music. Amplification has become ever so much the big part of modern musical tone. It was the application notes direct from the pages of the RCA radio tube publications that Leo Fender used as his guide to build the most popular evolution of guitar amplifier designs. He built amplifiers from his radio shop in Fullerton California . First experimenting and building PA systems much like Bob Heil. He rented amplified sound systems from his radio repair shop. His first guitar amplifiers that he produced were sold in 1946 . Before the actual advent of the electric guitar. These were originally built for lap steel Hawaiian guitars popular after WW2 . Soon solid body electric guitars changed the sound of popular music. Electronic experimenters, many of them radio and ham radio guys found their niche behind the scenes in rock n roll. Ham radio provided a resourceful pool of technically adept to lead the evolution. Radio has provided the groundwork for many technical trades and engineering. It's not just aerospace or defense that many amateur radio operators found careers but many hams can be found throughout the professional music trades as well!

Thanks again, Dave! Really enjoying this series

Great interview, thank you Dr. Heil.

Look like working joe on alien isolation video game.

My Mom has 6 of those, watching video I had to keep volume down, well my Mom thanks we have a leak.

I use to have that radio when I was living in gig harbor 30 years ago

Excellent interview!

Fun stories! Also fun to see Bob's still got a couple of his HyGain CB 10-meter conversions proudly sitting at eye-level in the shack. In fact, there's a bunch of equipment there that i"ll bet could tell great stories!

really cool sweep of the antennas. thanks

Another excellent interview, Dave. Lots of wisdom here. I love Bob’s commitment to ham radio and young people.