On 11/11/2024 6:26 PM, tardivat via groups.io wrote:
I think his call was W6BH that had a remote? super station right on
the peak of the mountain with pretuned amplifiers.
Was W6BH around Anza in SoCal?? If so, I believe that property got
bought by WA6TQT, who has a massive antler farm with many stacked yagis
on those several hills (in addition to his home-spun "golf course" 8-).
He told me the antler farm was built by the previous owner, whose call I
can't remember but W6BH sounds familiar, because I had never heard of
this so-called "big gun" before (if he was primarily a SSBer, then no
wonder!). There are a bunch of SDDXC and SCCC contesters, such as N5ZO,
NE6I, K6JO, and others, who run contests from his station, mostly
remotely. He only has two or three operating positions for all those
huge stacked antlers... and some of them are really large. I didn't see
any equipment that could have been W6BH's... absolutely no tubes
anywhere other than perhaps an ultra-modern final or two, like maybe an
Acom... when I visited TQT several years back.
I'm not aware of any other large contesting stations in the SoCal area
any longer other than a very few singletons.
Steve, K0XP
