Re: Topband: elevated radials

[Chuck Dietz]

That worked for me.

Chuck W5PR

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 8:45 PM N4ZR  wrote:

> I am contemplating 4 elevated radials for a 160-meter inverted L.  Am I
> correct to think that I need to resonate each pair of radials in their
> final location as if they were a very low dipole?
>
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> 73, Pete N4ZR
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Topband: elevated radials

[N4ZR]

I am contemplating 4 elevated radials for a 160-meter inverted L.  Am I 
correct to think that I need to resonate each pair of radials in their 
final location as if they were a very low dipole?


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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on

[Steve]

I only worked Jack a few times on topband but did work him many times on 6m 
F2 back when the Sun was being co-operative. My pre-dawn CQs were often 
answered by his S9+++ signal and were the only indicator that the band was 
open! Those great days are gone forever it now might seem. RIP 'ZZ'.


Steve  VE7SL



WEB - "The VE7SL Radio Notebook": http://qsl.net/ve7sl/

VE7SL BLOG - "Homebrewing and Operating Adventures From 2200m to Nanowaves": 
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Topband: Re VE1ZZ (SK) and LA3XI (SK)

[Phil Hartwell via Topband]

Hi Folks,

What a sad weekend, first we lost Jack, VE1ZZ and now I hear that Svein, 
LA3XI has also passed on.


Both were often the only signals I could hear from their respective 
parts of the world on 160m, both outstanding signals and both had 
excellent ears.


Lets honour these two fine operators by participating in the Pre-Stew today.

73, Phil VK6GX.


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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long)

[Brian Campbell]

A friend of mine ( who to this day knows absolutely nothing about radio, 
propagation or especially antennas  ) and I worked together about 30 years ago 
and when he found out I was doing radio he immediately said " Do you know 
VE1ZZ?"  No I replied not personally but I know "OF" him because he is a legend 
to all Topbanders.

He then went on to explain how, when he was a kid back in the early 60's or 
70's, he and his friends would sneak over to Jacks place to climb his towers 
for fun and that Jack would sometimes catch them and run them off. "Funny thing 
he said, sometimes when we were on the towers they would start humming" and he 
started laughing. I asked him if he knew why they were humming and he said he 
had no idea. So then I started laughing and told  him why - and then he stopped 
and got little pale...

That became a running joke between us for the many years we worked together.

I even had the chance to tell Jack about it during one of the CQ160 SSB 
contests about 10 or 11  years ago. Jack laughed on the air when I relayed the 
story and said " I know who you are talking about!"

R.I.P. Jack es TU for the countless 160 QSOs...

You will be missed but not forgotten my friend.

73,
Brian
VE3MGY







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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

[Mike Waters]

That reminds me, one of my Beverages
 is sagging and shorted. I
can't hear to the SW until we fix that.

I thought that we would have had the 160m inverted-L back up by now.
Hopefully soon! My XYL Katie, KD0LAJ has done most of that work so far.

And thanks for changing the footer, Tree! That was a nice surprise. :-)

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 2:29 PM Tree  wrote:

> ... Back to working on my beverage to improve my ability to hear y'all
> tonight.
>
> Tree N6TR / K7RAT
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Re: Topband: Fwd: Re: VE1ZZ Nite

[Mike Waters]

Maybe some ham club will get his callsign, like Stew Perry's call was IIRC.
I thought that was the case for Milt Jensen, but apparently not.

When I die, no Topbander or club is going to want mine! ;-)

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 1:18 PM JL PFIRMAN  wrote:

> Tree looks like a lot of top banders are in favor,its your club.To bad his
> call can"t be retired like other sport numbers
> thanks
> much, Jim W3TO
> [snip]
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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

[Tree]

I kind of like "LowBand Jack" and we can put VE1ZZ on the web page.

I will confer with the Bored Of Directors of the BARC and see if this gets
approved.  I think it will.

Back to working on my beverage to improve my ability to hear y'all tonight.

Tree N6TR / K7RAT

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 10:15 AM Mike Smith VE9AA  wrote:

> p.s.- Tree, If you do make it into its own (real) contest, one thing to
> think about is probably NOT using "VE1ZZ" in the title. (just in the
> description on the website)
>
>
>
> A 2-letter call VE call like that, unless picked up by one of his
> kids(unlikely), is apt to be reissued very fast, in about 365 days +/- to
> someone else.
>
>
>
> Call it "Jack/ZZ",  "Nova Scotia Jack" "160m Jack", "LowBand Jack" or
> something.
>
>
>
> Mike VE9AA
>
>
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>
> Keswick Ridge, NB
>
>
>
> From: Mike Smith VE9AA [mailto:ve...@nbnet.nb.ca]
> Sent: October 20, 2018 2:01 PM
> To: 'topband@contesting.com'
> Subject: Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite
>
>
>
> I never get on for the PRE-Stews(just the main STEW), but if you were to
> rename it to something honouring VE1ZZ, I would make a point to show up.
> (Maybe even make it into its own "real" contest, as many QRV today (like
> me)
> did not know W1BB, but DID know Jack/ZZ
>
>
>
> RIP Jack, VE1-Zulu Zulu
>
>
>
> Mike VE9AA
>
>
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>
> Keswick Ridge, NB
>
> We could rename the PreStew (which starts in one minute).
>
>
>
> Tree
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:42 AM JL PFIRMAN  wrote:
>
>
>
> > God rest your soul Jack,may His Perpetual Light Shine upon you.
>
> >
>
> >   To All,we have the" Stew " ,how about the "Jack"on the
>
> > yearly anniversary of his death?
>
> >
>
> >   No logs to send in,just an evening on top band ,cw or ssb ,your
>
> > choice."eh".  73 RIP Jack . Jim W3TO
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: Topband: Fwd: Re: VE1ZZ Nite

[F Z_Bruce]

Many VE1ZZ  contest  possibilities,  maybe similar  to 
"Stew"  contest ,      "Jack ZZ "   could work.

RIP Jack

73
Bruce


 
On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 14:10:13 -0400 (EDT), JL PFIRMAN wrote:

Tree looks like a lot of top banders are in favor,its your club.To bad his call 
can"t be retired like other sport numbers

thanks much, Jim W3TO

 Original Message --
From: Tree
To: w3t...@comcast.net
Cc: 160
Date: October 20, 2018 at 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

We could rename the PreStew (which starts in one minute).

Tree

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:42 AM JL PFIRMAN < w3t...@comcast.net 
mailto:w3t...@comcast.net > wrote:

God rest your soul Jack,may His Perpetual Light Shine upon you.

To All,we have the" Stew " ,how about the "Jack"on the yearly anniversary of 
his death?

No logs to send in,just an evening on top band ,cw or ssb ,your choice."eh". 73 
RIP Jack . Jim W3TO
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Topband: Fwd: Re: VE1ZZ Nite

[JL PFIRMAN]

Tree looks like a lot of top banders are in favor,its your club.To bad his call 
can"t be retired like other sport numbers

thanks much, 
Jim W3TO

 Original Message --
From: Tree 
To: w3t...@comcast.net
Cc: 160 
Date: October 20, 2018 at 10:59 AM
Subject: Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

We could rename the PreStew (which starts in one minute).

Tree

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:42 AM JL PFIRMAN < w3t...@comcast.net 
mailto:w3t...@comcast.net > wrote:

God rest your soul Jack,may His Perpetual Light Shine upon you.

  To All,we have the" Stew " ,how about the "Jack"on the yearly 
anniversary of his death?

  No logs to send in,just an evening on top band ,cw or ssb ,your 
choice."eh".  73 RIP Jack . Jim W3TO
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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

[Mike Smith VE9AA]

p.s.- Tree, If you do make it into its own (real) contest, one thing to
think about is probably NOT using "VE1ZZ" in the title. (just in the
description on the website)

 

A 2-letter call VE call like that, unless picked up by one of his
kids(unlikely), is apt to be reissued very fast, in about 365 days +/- to
someone else.

 

Call it "Jack/ZZ",  "Nova Scotia Jack" "160m Jack", "LowBand Jack" or
something.

 

Mike VE9AA

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB

 

From: Mike Smith VE9AA [mailto:ve...@nbnet.nb.ca] 
Sent: October 20, 2018 2:01 PM
To: 'topband@contesting.com'
Subject: Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

 

I never get on for the PRE-Stews(just the main STEW), but if you were to
rename it to something honouring VE1ZZ, I would make a point to show up.
(Maybe even make it into its own "real" contest, as many QRV today (like me)
did not know W1BB, but DID know Jack/ZZ

 

RIP Jack, VE1-Zulu Zulu

 

Mike VE9AA

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB

We could rename the PreStew (which starts in one minute).

 

Tree

 

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:42 AM JL PFIRMAN  wrote:

 

> God rest your soul Jack,may His Perpetual Light Shine upon you.

> 

>   To All,we have the" Stew " ,how about the "Jack"on the

> yearly anniversary of his death?

> 

>   No logs to send in,just an evening on top band ,cw or ssb ,your

> choice."eh".  73 RIP Jack . Jim W3TO

 

 

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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

[Mike Smith VE9AA]

I never get on for the PRE-Stews(just the main STEW), but if you were to
rename it to something honouring VE1ZZ, I would make a point to show up.
(Maybe even make it into its own "real" contest, as many QRV today (like me)
did not know W1BB, but DID know Jack/ZZ

 

RIP Jack, VE1-Zulu Zulu

 

Mike VE9AA

 

Mike, Coreen & Corey

Keswick Ridge, NB

 

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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

[daraymond]

Great idea. . . would be a fitting tribute to a great TB pioneer!   73. 
. . Dave, W0FLS


-Original Message- 
From: Tree

Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2018 9:59 AM
To: w3t...@comcast.net
Cc: 160
Subject: Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

We could rename the PreStew (which starts in one minute).

Tree

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:42 AM JL PFIRMAN  wrote:


God rest your soul Jack,may His Perpetual Light Shine upon you.

  To All,we have the" Stew " ,how about the "Jack"on the
yearly anniversary of his death?

  No logs to send in,just an evening on top band ,cw or ssb ,your
choice."eh".  73 RIP Jack . Jim W3TO
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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

[Petr Ourednik]

Tree,

agree! We should...

73 - Petr, OK1RP


On Sat, Oct 20, 2018, at 4:59 PM, Tree wrote:
> We could rename the PreStew (which starts in one minute).
>
> Tree
>
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:42 AM JL PFIRMAN  wrote:>
> > God rest your soul Jack,may His Perpetual Light Shine upon you.
> >
> >   To All,we have the" Stew " ,how about the "Jack"on
> >   the> > yearly anniversary of his death?
> >
> >   No logs to send in,just an evening on top band ,cw or ssb
> >   ,your> > choice."eh".  73 RIP Jack . Jim W3TO
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73 - Petr, OK1RP
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Re: Topband: Adding chicken wire or mesh on top of radial field

[Yuri Blanarovich]

I think the best vertical installations were done by old radio 
engineers. 

No modeling programs, but tedious solid measurements reflecting reality.


What I saw at WOO - Long Lines AT&T station is perhaps ideal setup for 
vertical all band (discone) antennas.
Radiator sits on concrete base about 3 ft high, with insulator. Tower 
radiator is about 30 ft high, with bundle of wires coming from the top, 
to the ring about 2/3 up, then down back to base.
Not sure if there are any radials/screen at the ground, but the ground 
is practically flooded by the sea water. Sea water comes through dredged 
channels, with evaporation, I presume, increasing the salinity.
Radials are coming out from the base, suspended in the air, over to the 
wooden  circular "fence" (radius about 25 ft?) then they slope and drop 
to the ground.



For better efficiency, it is desirable to make the high current carrying 
portion of the antenna longest possible (electrical closer to 3/8 wave) 
and portion of radials by the base suspended in the air (no earth 
"eating" the RF). If no salt water, looks like the best combination is 
to lay the ground screen in the vicinity of the antenna (gives 
"reflections" for pattern forming) and then suspended or partially 
suspended radials to "counterpoise" the antenna. No need to connect 
screen to radials.
Best 160 inland vertical?  Wally, W8LRL has 3/8 vertical radiator 
sitting on the mound, with 360 radials 3/8 long, laid on the surface.



Looks like WOO Ocean gate QTH is (was) probably the best in the world. I 
never seen the S-meter to sit at 0 on 160m on vertical, dead QUIET!  


Yuri, K3BU.us



On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 08:58 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:

Quite late in response, partly done much earlier. Sometimes I have 
time,

and sometimes I have a house and a spouse.

Peter's original question in this thread was why a radial and mesh mix 
in a

counterpoise should have the radials and mesh bonded together. That is
quite a different question than why mesh at all, or how good is mesh 
by
itself, or mesh versus radials, or just how does "ground" behave at 
the

seashore.


...


BL&E DID have VERY sensitive thermocouple field strength and power
measuring devices with exceptional accuracy. When I was employed by 
AT&T
Long Lines in 1963, way back when I still had hair, variants of these 
were
still employed for standard maintenance practices. They were 
significantly

better than anything I myself have owned since. Just BULKY :>))



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Topband: VE1ZZ SK

[Yuri Blanarovich]

Sorry to hear about Jack's QSY to radio heaven. 

I had privilege to visit him few times and tried to shake few low band 
records, one is still there as VA1A on 80m CQ WPX CW for NA. It was like 
driving into Eu 160 radio tunnel. Getting smacked by hearing piles of 
Europeans starting around 3 pm, waiting for them to respond for 2 
hours. 



Jack was the icon/beacon on Top band, from days when the band was muddy, 
very few bothered to mess with that noisy band, needing big stuff 
antennas. He found his hill QTH by the ocean, on the edge of NS, next 
door to Eu, made Head of Jeddore known to the radio world. 



Jack scrounged, scavenged parts, towers, cables, ropes (yes, even coke 
bottles) to populate the hill with antennas that had all terrain tires 
(base/insulators). Modest rig in the shack and the home brewed 
"vertical" PA. His life was 160, up during the nights for openings, 
handing out points and multiplier in contests. He enjoyed being "first" 
and happy to nail the new one for his DXCC. 



He was my first NA when I was OK3BU, thrilled to get him with 10W and 
piece of wire. I never dreamed that one day I would visit him, operate 
from his station, or be "home" for my VE1BY call. I enjoyed every moment 
being with Jack, there is a special bond between the serious topbanders, 
it is like finding the long lost brother, sometime no words are needed. 
Jack had understanding and support from his wife Opel.



Oh well, we are getting old, inevitable is around the corner. Looking 
back, we lived during the exciting period of radio, gave us fun, 
expanded horizons, foundation for carriers, knowing some special people. 
I thought when I retire, I would do some writing, do photo/video and 
play with radios. Wanted to write about record chasing operations from 
VE1ZZ, W8LRL. TF4M and others, but life keeps us busy with family and 
business "stuff".  Now that contesting and hamming is "advanced" to the 
stage, when you do not need station (rentastations), you do not need 
operator (Internet will serve you), or you don't even need to hear the 
station (FT8), I can retire from old fashion contesting and do the 
neglected. Go through the boxes of photo/video material and sketch some 
good old days of radio contesting.



RIP Jack!  Say Hello to W1BB!


Yuri, K3BU.us, VE1VY, VE3BMV



Good idea, to rename preStew to "Jack"









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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

[Tree]

We could rename the PreStew (which starts in one minute).

Tree

On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 6:42 AM JL PFIRMAN  wrote:

> God rest your soul Jack,may His Perpetual Light Shine upon you.
>
>   To All,we have the" Stew " ,how about the "Jack"on the
> yearly anniversary of his death?
>
>   No logs to send in,just an evening on top band ,cw or ssb ,your
> choice."eh".  73 RIP Jack . Jim W3TO
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Topband: Jack SK

[Johann Bruinier]

Learning about Jack's passing hurts immensely.

Since our first 160 Q on Jan-25-64  we worked so many times, even at 
improbable hours of the day.


Jack will be missed very much.

RIP Jack!

My condolences to his family and friends.

Jan DL9KR.

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Topband: VE1ZZ Nite

[JL PFIRMAN]

God rest your soul Jack,may His Perpetual Light Shine upon you.

  To All,we have the" Stew " ,how about the "Jack"on the yearly 
anniversary of his death?

  No logs to send in,just an evening on top band ,cw or ssb ,your 
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Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long)

[Peter Voelpel]

I am very sorry to read that Jack passed away, thats a very sad news.
I will never forget, when I operated CQ160 SSB in 2013 it was 20:30 local time 
when he called in, I could not believe his S7 signal at his full daylight.
The next station from North America came in at 23:30 and was much weaker.

R.I.P Jack

73
Peter

-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of k1zm--- via 
Topband
Sent: Freitag, 19. Oktober 2018 19:10
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long)

Hello Gang


I am truly saddened to have to pass along the contents of an email I just 
received from Carl Leahy who was one of Jack Leahy,  VE1ZZ's sons.


It is short and sweet - but I will add some personal comments after sharing his 
note to me.


+=





 Carl Leahy carl.leahy1@gmail.comHide

To
k1zm k...@aol.com



Jeff, our family wanted you to know that dad passed away last evening. If you 
could let the people in the ham world know we would really appreciate it. It 
was a very big part of his life . He had just been talking about you and the 
book you gave him a few years ago..


Carl Leahy
Signing off for VE1ZZ 😞




++


A few comments from my memory now follow - as best I recall them:


VE1ZZ was not only a personal friend to many of us - he was probably one of the 
finest Topband Dx'ers ever to have lived.  He goes back to not long after W1BB 
came back on the band at the end of WW!! - and was one of the strongest signals 
I have ever witnessed on Topband.  His signal was almost LEGENDARY all over the 
world.  EU stations used to say  - "He is almost as loud when he calls in Asian 
pileups as the EU callers are over here"...and that says it all!


Jack Leahy was personally responsible for my migrating to VY2ZM and was here at 
my home twice - once is 2002 and once in 2012.  I last visited him and Opal 
(his XYL) in August of 2014 with Mike OE6MBG who wanted to meet Jack and see 
his QTH .


When I finally had the time after building my house here on PEI  to visit Jack 
which was probably in July of 2003 or 2004, at first blush his place did not 
make a huge impression on me because it had only a short triangular portion of 
land at the road in the Head of Jeddore NE of Halifax - and the land rose 
rapidly behind his home.  One initially wondered "How does he get out so well 
from here down at the road?"


The answer came shortly thereafter - Jack took me out behind the house - and we 
climbed that hill - up and up and up for something like a MILE - it was a pizza 
slice in shape and very wide at the top of the hill in the woods - with only 
about 100 feet (if that) at the road front side of the parcel.


Some distance up the hill was Jack's 160m 4sq array - which was made of ROHN 6 
tower - that was sitting on 18 wheeler truck tires as base insulators.  The 
towers were not tall - perhaps 55 feet or so and the rest of each radiator was 
wire - so it was really a WIRE inverted L 4sq.  Jack was the "ultimate 
scavenger" and his radials were all 1-2" diameter pieces of HARDLINE!!!  
Hundreds of them all over the hillside  I think he had a friend in CATV or at 
his local dump - but he got most of it for next to nothing he said.


From that point of his land, he could reach around the HILLTOP on 160m to 
acquire  a clear shot to EU and the South was wide open and to the SW was also 
clear looking over the water.  Looking straight up the hill was probably 
blocked to some degree - but often this does not matter all that much on 
Topband.


The day I was there was shortly after Jack had managed to communicate across 
the pond on what I think was 600m - I may be wrong about the frequency - but 
the antenna he used to make the SLOW SLOW SPEED CW contact was something out of 
this world!


It started about 1/3 of the way up the hill - and ran all the way to the rear 
of the property to near the furthest reaches of his land - and this was a LONG 
LONG LONG walk to get there - through some land that I recall was swampy.  It 
had to have been at least 3000 feet long.


Part way up the hill, Jack had built a small shelter in which he placed the 
BIGGEST homebrew loading coil I have ever seen. It was about 4 feet tall and 
about 8 feet in diameter and wrapped around some kind of coil form he had 
created.


Jack explained that it took him awhile to resonate the system to his desired 
operating QRG - and this was done by taking a pair of alligator clips and 
through trial and error he tapped the coil he made - trying to use a DC ammeter 
to find the point of peak current into the system - which he explained seemed 
to indicate the system was reasonably matched.


His was among the first to work across the pond with that antenna - just one of 
his many achievements.


When I was in the US Navy stationed at Bremerhaven, Germany I used to listen to 
Jack and W1BB

Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long)

[rgarrett5]

Greetings,

I'll try not to repeat what others have already said.

Jack was my first VE station on Topband back in 1982.  Subsequently, I
worked him probably more than one-hundred times with a great signal.  He
never seemed rushed and always willing to stop and say hello.  I also had
the opportunity to work him on 6 meters too.

RIP my friend.  You will be sorely missed.  73, Bob K3UL

-Original Message-
From: Topband  On Behalf Of Jon Zaimes
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 9:29 PM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long)

Jack has always been one of my heroes on Topband.

I recall when K1VR visited him and wrote (in a QST article) about how Jack
used old plastic soda bottles to weatherize open coax splices in the field.
A great idea I've copied hundreds of times here on coax and hardline
junctions.

I usually gave Jack birthday greetings each Dec. 24, after he mentioned he
was 79 on that date in 2011. My log shows I missed him in 2015 but gave him
belated greetings on the following Jan. 1, and our last QSO was Jan. 24,
2016. He was 85 at his passing.

I often listened as Jack worked exotic DX I couldn't hear. On March 8,
2004, I lingered on 160 after finishing the ARRL DX contest and heard Jack
working some weak DX station. It was an extremely quiet night on the band,
and I was amazed that I could copy the station Jack was working. It was
Kumar, VU2BGS, and I was fortunate he came back to me when I tail-ended
Jack, and it was a new one for me on Top.

Jack often stopped by to say hello if I was calling CQ, often with a tip on
some rare DX that had been active.

Jack, we'll miss you.

73/Jon AA1K


-Original Message-
From: Topband  On Behalf Of terry burge
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:33 PM
To: topband@contesting.com; terry burge 
Subject: Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long)

Sad to see he will no longer be there to give out Nova Scotia. I see I've
worked him three times 2014, 2011 and 2009 for a multiplier during CQWW160.
Never really got to know him but I have enjoyed the great stories. That is
something about ham radio I love. You never know who you might be hearing at
the other end of the either. Just hope a few will say one or two nice things
about me when I join him. 

What do you suppose ham radio guys do for fun up there?


Terry
KI7M

> On October 19, 2018 at 1:35 PM Wolfgang Wessely 
wrote:
> 
> 
> very sad to hear this...
> 
> Jack was my first DX on 80m in the 80th, using an antenna myself, 
> which could not really work - only he made the contact possible!
> Later, I had many topband-contacts with him and no wonder: Jack was my 
> first VE on Six in 1992...
> 
> RIP
> Wolfgang - DJ3TF
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 19.10.2018 um 19:10 schrieb k1zm--- via Topband:
> > Hello Gang
> >
> >
> > I am truly saddened to have to pass along the contents of an email I
just received from Carl Leahy who was one of Jack Leahy,  VE1ZZ's sons.
> >
> >
> > It is short and sweet - but I will add some personal comments after
sharing his note to me.
> >
> >
> > +=
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   Carl Leahy carl.leahy1@gmail.comHide
> >
> > To
> > k1zm k...@aol.com
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeff, our family wanted you to know that dad passed away last evening.
If you could let the people in the ham world know we would really appreciate
it. It was a very big part of his life . He had just been talking about you
and the book you gave him a few years ago..
> >
> >
> > Carl Leahy
> > Signing off for VE1ZZ 😞
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ++
> >
> >
> > A few comments from my memory now follow - as best I recall them:
> >
> >
> > VE1ZZ was not only a personal friend to many of us - he was probably
one of the finest Topband Dx'ers ever to have lived.  He goes back to not
long after W1BB came back on the band at the end of WW!! - and was one of
the strongest signals I have ever witnessed on Topband.  His signal was
almost LEGENDARY all over the world.  EU stations used to say  - "He is
almost as loud when he calls in Asian pileups as the EU callers are over
here"...and that says it all!
> >
> >
> > Jack Leahy was personally responsible for my migrating to VY2ZM and was
here at my home twice - once is 2002 and once in 2012.  I last visited him
and Opal (his XYL) in August of 2014 with Mike OE6MBG who wanted to meet
Jack and see his QTH .
> >
> >
> > When I finally had the time after building my house here on PEI  to
visit Jack which was probably in July of 2003 or 2004, at first blush his
place did not make a huge impression on me because it had only a short
triangular portion of land at the road in the Head of Jeddore NE of Halifax
- and the land rose rapidly behind his home.  One initially wondered "How
does he get out so well from here down at the road?"
> >
> >
> > The answer came shortly thereafter - Jack took me out behind the house
- and we climbed that hill 

Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long)

[ON4WW_pandora]

Jack was recently on my mind...I was dreading the news that surely would come 
one day, as I hadn't heard Jack for a while.
Yesterday that news came, ending a fabulous era Jack shared with so many of us.

Our first QSO was on 25 Nov. 1990, when I made my shy entry on topband.
He copied my low power signal across the big pond, I was utterly impressed.
Our last QSO was on 30 Dec. 2011, when I called him with 5 Watts - he came 
straight back !
In those 2 decades, we made 60+ QSO's on topband, intertwined with Q's on 
10-30-40 and 80m.
Always a thrill and moments of joy.

Jack had a super RX and TX station (tnx for the insight, Jeff).
When active from 9X-EL-S0 in the nineties, I could count on Jack to inform me 
topband was open to North America.
Through the tropics' static crashes, he'd always make me happily jump in my 
chair - time and again these Q's produced a big smile on my face.
Jack was there - yes!

Jack will always be on my mind.

Mark - on4ww.

-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Jon Zaimes [mailto:j...@verizon.net] 
Verzonden: zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 3:29
Aan: topband@contesting.com
Onderwerp: Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long)

Jack has always been one of my heroes on Topband.

I recall when K1VR visited him and wrote (in a QST article) about how Jack used 
old plastic soda bottles to weatherize open coax splices in the field. A great 
idea I've copied hundreds of times here on coax and hardline junctions.

I usually gave Jack birthday greetings each Dec. 24, after he mentioned he was 
79 on that date in 2011. My log shows I missed him in 2015 but gave him belated 
greetings on the following Jan. 1, and our last QSO was Jan. 24, 2016. He was 
85 at his passing.

I often listened as Jack worked exotic DX I couldn't hear. On March 8, 2004, I 
lingered on 160 after finishing the ARRL DX contest and heard Jack working some 
weak DX station. It was an extremely quiet night on the band, and I was amazed 
that I could copy the station Jack was working. It was Kumar, VU2BGS, and I was 
fortunate he came back to me when I tail-ended Jack, and it was a new one for 
me on Top.

Jack often stopped by to say hello if I was calling CQ, often with a tip on 
some rare DX that had been active.

Jack, we'll miss you.

73/Jon AA1K


-Original Message-
From: Topband  On Behalf Of terry burge
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2018 8:33 PM
To: topband@contesting.com; terry burge 
Subject: Re: Topband: VE1ZZ has passed on - Very Very Sad news! (Long)

Sad to see he will no longer be there to give out Nova Scotia. I see I've 
worked him three times 2014, 2011 and 2009 for a multiplier during CQWW160. 
Never really got to know him but I have enjoyed the great stories. That is 
something about ham radio I love. You never know who you might be hearing at 
the other end of the either. Just hope a few will say one or two nice things 
about me when I join him. 

What do you suppose ham radio guys do for fun up there?


Terry
KI7M

> On October 19, 2018 at 1:35 PM Wolfgang Wessely  wrote:
> 
> 
> very sad to hear this...
> 
> Jack was my first DX on 80m in the 80th, using an antenna myself, 
> which could not really work - only he made the contact possible!
> Later, I had many topband-contacts with him and no wonder: Jack was my 
> first VE on Six in 1992...
> 
> RIP
> Wolfgang - DJ3TF
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 19.10.2018 um 19:10 schrieb k1zm--- via Topband:
> > Hello Gang
> >
> >
> > I am truly saddened to have to pass along the contents of an email I just 
> > received from Carl Leahy who was one of Jack Leahy,  VE1ZZ's sons.
> >
> >
> > It is short and sweet - but I will add some personal comments after sharing 
> > his note to me.
> >
> >
> > +=
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   Carl Leahy carl.leahy1@gmail.comHide
> >
> > To
> > k1zm k...@aol.com
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeff, our family wanted you to know that dad passed away last evening. If 
> > you could let the people in the ham world know we would really appreciate 
> > it. It was a very big part of his life . He had just been talking about you 
> > and the book you gave him a few years ago..
> >
> >
> > Carl Leahy
> > Signing off for VE1ZZ 😞
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ++
> >
> >
> > A few comments from my memory now follow - as best I recall them:
> >
> >
> > VE1ZZ was not only a personal friend to many of us - he was probably one of 
> > the finest Topband Dx'ers ever to have lived.  He goes back to not long 
> > after W1BB came back on the band at the end of WW!! - and was one of the 
> > strongest signals I have ever witnessed on Topband.  His signal was almost 
> > LEGENDARY all over the world.  EU stations used to say  - "He is almost as 
> > loud when he calls in Asian pileups as the EU callers are over here"...and 
> > that says it all!
> >
> >
> > Jack Leahy was personally responsible for my migrating to VY2ZM and was 
> > here at my home twice - once is 2002 and

Topband: VE1ZZ (SK) and LA3XI (SK)

[vk3io]

Sad news about Jack. R.I.P. Jack.

I had many qso's on Top Band with Jack going back to 1986. He was always 
very obliging to give me a report when it seemed no one was hearing me.


Also I was informed by Art. LA2FKA that another great Topband operator, 
Svein LA3XI had passed away last week, or so, of which is also sad news. 
R.I.P Svein.


I also had many qso's on Top Band with Svein. He was also very obliging 
to give me a report when it seemed no one was hearing me.


Art said he would now erect a top band antenna, to keep Norway active on 
Top Band.


73's from Ron. vk3io

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