Mel, K6KBE shack tour.

[K6JEK]

Mel is the M in KLM but that was just a little part of radio work he has done over the years.

He has very nice station, modern stuff upstairs, Bauer in the basement, at a terrific location on a small plateau in Northern California.  The tour starts with his mostly SSB upstairs operating position but proceeds to the basement Bauer, the wine he's brewing there, and to the part I like, the antennas. I think it's interesting that someone who knows as much as he does about antennas runs a full wave inverted V on 75. I'll have to ask him about that and the theoretically infinite impedance it presents.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2D884A5B619F1480&feature=plcp

[Steve - K4HX]

A very nice station and location! Nicely done video too, although someone might tell Bobby about these new-fangled things called wireless mics.  

I like Mel stating being atop the World Trade Center as being the high point of his career. 

[W3GMS]

Thanks for posting it Jon.  Very nice place with a lots of toys!  I could tell Gary had something to do with the production! 

Joe, W3GMS

[K6JEK]

The mystery of the one wavelength inverted V is solved. Mel told me he feeds it in the middle of one of the halves, at a quarter wavelength point. The impedance there is 300 ohms hence the 6:1 balun.

He also told me he has about a thousand antenna models salted away. Now that's a number.

I have posted a few of the California Hammin videos. Don't be getting the impression that all of us out here have stations like Gary, Bob, Steve and Mel.

[Steve - K4HX]

Ah, man! I thought all CA stations were like this.

[KM1H]

Too bad the W6AM station didnt get similar coverage. That defined the California KW

[Steve - K4HX]

Or Reg Tibbetts.

http://amfone.net/Amforum/index.php?topic=30789.0

http://www.ncdxc.org/pages/history.html

[WBear2GCR]

There was a fellow in Schenectady for a long time, W2PV. (SK)

He had Signal One's on each band, with multiple towers of significant height.
Don't recall how many hundred feet.

Extreme envy...

                      _-_-

[W2JRO]

There was a fellow in Schenectady for a long time, W2PV. (SK)

He had Signal One's on each band, with multiple towers of significant height.
Don't recall how many hundred feet.

Extreme envy...

                      _-_-

You bet... his (Jim Lawson) antenna farm was something to see on Rt 7 . I remember my parents driving to GEX and latham circle mall and when we went by those towers...wow...it was one of the reasons I became a ham. His station was a contest powerhouse in the 1970's... I worked with his daughter for a bit years later. After his property was sold when he became a SK, those towers came down in short order. I still miss seeing those as no one in our area has anything close. I think the Yankee Contest club uses his call now.