MICROWAVE UPDATE
27-30 September 2001
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THE
PEOPLE YOU MEET AT MICROWAVE UPDATE
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Update is where you put the faces to the names.
As in any hobby there are well-known personalities whose names appear in
magazines or who are heard on the air doing marvellous things! You meet
these folk at Update! You also find that they are not much different to
yourself... they are enthusiastic AMATEUR RADIO MICROWAVERS. I have found
all the ones I have met to be most friendly and very helpful with advice
and information. Here are a few of the people I met this year ...
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This
very friendly fellow is Chuck Houghton. WB6IGP. He's the guy who got you
your Qualcomm 1 watt amp for 10GHz! He has lots of surplus parts and p.c.
boards for disposal and had a nightly session in his room selling useful
items to anyone who cared to come along.
Chuck has been extremely
helpful to the UK microwave fraternity. There can't be many of us who have
not modified that 1 watt PA for 10GHz!
... Great to meet you
Chuck! |
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can't be many microwavers who have not heard of these two characters!
On the left is Tom, WA1MBA,
a great experimenter and originator of his microwave emailing list.
Paul Wade, W1GHZ, the
antenna man, is on the right. He needs no introduction ... just type his
callsign in any Internet search engine and see what I mean! |
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"Mr
Moonbounce" himself, Jim Vogler, WA7CJO is seen here on the left talking
to well-known Californian microwaver, Chip Angle, N6CA.
If you hanker after getting
going on 10GHz EME then listen for WA7CJO. If you can't hear him then your
gear is not working properly! |
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the left is Dieter Doerfler, DJ4AM, co-holder of the world 10GHz DX record,
talking things over with Alan Avery, VK2AXA. Here are two microwavers from
opposites sides of the world finding common ground halfway ..in California,
USA.
Your webmaster, G3PHO,
only realised here at Update that he had actually spoken to Alan before
(on 10GHz!) way back in 1993 during a holiday in Australia, when he went
on a 3cm portable trip with Lyle, VK2ALU. Alan was on the other end of
the 10GHz path between Saddleback, near Wollongong, NSW and Sydney,NSW,
Australia. |
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Wherever
we go, we keep bumping into this character!
Those sunglass can't
hide the fact that this is indeed WW2R, Dave Robinson. Originally G4FRE,
Dave now lives and works in Texas. It's said he has a problem in that the
native Texans can't understand a word he says, such is the strength of
his English West Midlands accent!! We find that strange 'cos the Texan
farewell "Y'all come back?" is not far off the English Midlands version,
" Yowl cum back?"! |
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