Conditions can simply amaze you at times. The unpredictability of this propagation is what makes you get excited!

No time for hardly anything. The business grew too big. Wish I had more time but some hobbies have fell to the wayside.

@@JDDupuy i understand brother.

Wow very cool!

Government surplus sale. Big truck and big crane! Pete liked a challenge back then. Thanks for watching.

Well that was a great night, rare and one of over 35 made for my VUCC Award. I have been off the air for past 6 years. Equipment still here, life got in the way. You have some rare and highly praised radios. I wish you well and many hours of enjoyment!

Hard to believe that it's been 7 years since I made this video. Thanks!

LOL! Good one.

You're right. The single hole mount was pure stupidty!

Kansas City to Canton Illinois = 254 miles straight line. And no it would not be moonbounce not on voice. 1296.100 is a Sideband Frequency. The doppler shift on 1296 EME is huge and requires us to run digital. The video shows the DB lose between running vertical versus horizontal. Larry has the ability to rotate his yagi from those two politicizations. This was over 11 years ago.

@@JDDupuy wow 254 miles is a very long distance even for vhf...in the past i have build a cross yagi antenna for satellite,i did the setup for circular polarization,1 cross yagi antenna transmitting at the same time with individual gamma match inch one and another cross yagi in the other side of the boom,1 yagi rotating to the right and the other yagi rotating to the the left,...///not many ham knows what i am talking about, I still have the yagis in my shed and i still have many pictures of the setup... If you put 2 yagis together one horizontal and the other vertical and you used the right calculation in the coaxial that goes to the gamma match ,you can make that one signal go faster in one yagi than the other and that will make the signal to rotate, and that is know as circular polarization ,,,depending to your calculation in the coaxial one should be short that the other and that will make the antenna signal to rotate to the right or to the left ,i never have to rotate my antennas ,circular polarization is like if you have 2yagis one vertical and the other horizontal at the same time...is the best setup....my English is not the best .i apologize for that....73

How cool it must of been to know him. Glad you let me know.

@@JDDupuy He was a kind man and let a 5 year old kid in his radio shack. He invited my family over for our first glimpse of color television... I remember that it was The Wonderful World of Walt Disney we watched.

@@exmailman1 He sold appliances as I recall. I remember that show each Sunday. Great memories! Thanks for sharing your story....appreciate you!

10 years and re-cabled a 2nd time. Still working fine. That shed is gone and a new 1200 square foot woodshop right next to it.

Huh no.

No they do not. His dream did not last long. And they really never caught on. Check out Meter Builder MB 1. Nicer meter and I bought 2.

You're 100 percent correct. Did not stay as my primary gear 10 plus years ago. Moved on to German transverters. Gave up the hobby 2 years ago. Enjoying other hobbies these days.

You have been officially added to the lawsuit. Another idiot who got scammed by someone who made up some BS. It amazes me the dumb ass hams who read a statement from a guy with no facts what so ever and believe it. Thank you for posting here on KZbin as it is just more evidence by which to haul folks into court.