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New Yor- Niskayuna/Schenetady Old Time Ham 60s-70s
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by DALFOLLO on March 5, 2008
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All,
I am very interested to understand what happend to an old Ham I lived near in Schenectady/Niskyuna.
When I was 7-9 I used to walk through his antenna farm and yank on the guy lines to high antennas. He must have had 6 or so LARGE antennas. When we would yank, sometimes the antennas would rotate...we obviously thought it was from our yanking....
I believe he was a big time Ham in the 60-70s, likley worked for GE (which was based in Schenectady). I got a chance to see his ham shack, which was actually his whole basement, with racks of gear, amateur television, etc. He must have had a 20-30' of desk space with radios above, including radios in the rack and such.
I would like to find out who he was I think he was 60 years old in the mid 70s....if you know Niskayuna Schenetady he lived on Troy/Schenectady Road, a few houses east of Pearse road (I live a little more east on "2576 Old Troy Road").
Hear is a google map of the location. I am sending a similar note to a local ham club for info, just thought I would check here....I always thought his radio shack was the coolest place in the world...
Seems hard to find a search DB for older hams....certainly he has long since become an SK...his antennas don't show up on the google map.....
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Pearse+Road+and+troy+schenectady+road+niskayuna+ny+12309&sll=42.784551,-73.861771&sspn=0.010567,0.019956&ie=UTF8&ll=42.785213,-73.863122&spn=0.010567,0.019956&t=h&z=16&iwloc=addr
Thanks!
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RE: New Yor- Niskayuna/Schenetady Old Time Ham 60s
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by W3HF on March 24, 2008
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W2PV, Dr. James (Jim) L. Lawson. His address in the 1976 callbook was 2532 Troy Rd, Schenectady, 12309.
Pictures of his antennas are at
http://home.p07.itscom.net/nob/DXer_1980/w2pv.htm
Do a google search on W2PV, and you'll find he was a very famous contester, now in the CQ Contest Hall of Fame. Many contests were won from his station, often with guest operators. He was also an antenna expert--half of the hits you'll get on a GoogleSearch will be references to folks using a "W2PV yagi." He published at least one book on yagi antenna design. There's also a college scholarship (administered by the ARRL Foundation) in his name.
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RE: New Yor- Niskayuna/Schenetady Old Time Ham 60s
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by DALFOLLO on April 8, 2008
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Thanks so much!
My father told me a few weeks ago that he thought the name was Lawson.....and on that same day I came across Lawson's book at the library!
Your info helps prove the connection. Thanks for the pictures, it really brings back memories.
THAT was an antenna farm!
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