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More about Moore - December 2007 Column |
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More about Art Moore, W2MJD |
 Designer Art Moore, W2MJD, left with the transceiver and Don Degerdon, WA2WDF, in the North Arlington RACES station, about 1968. |
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At 08:45 PM 11/15/2007, K2JT wrote: I was about 13 when I met Art and spent dozens of afternoons on the weekends at his house/shack in North Arlington. I lived on the other side of "N A". When I passed the novice exam I had no TX, he built a 6L6 TX and gave it to me. When I passed the General class exam his son - K2LGN picked me up in his Corvette convertible and drove me to the house to sit down and get on the air with the 75A4, 32S1, home brew 4-811A's amp and tribander. I settled down to run the boys on 20 CW, I will never forget it!! Art did not use that rig, he loved 2 mtrs with his "522" that he converted. Before I went home that night he gave me a homebrew 80/20 superhet rcvr as all I had at home was an S38C from Novice days. That photo in QST is one taken in the basement of the police HQ on Ridge Road. See the Apache and HQ110 - that was the "NEW" rig, the old one for the 10 mtr net was a police number converted for our use. If memory serves me right, my club station W2GTF (St. Peter's College, Jersey City,NJ) in field day 1968 used that 10/2M radio on 2 mtrs from Slide Mtn,NY. It ran 10W on AM and we worked 50 W 8's, a dozen W9's plus lots of VE3's (one mobile). The following week we got buried with QSL card requests. That was Art- you need a 2M radio, borrow mine.........we happen to be at his home to beg a variac, blower etc for a home brew KW we were building. Art never took a penny for anything. If you have an old QST with FD results from that year they may have given us a few lines. Ralph WA2ORP lived a block from me, he loved 6 mtr AM. I have the QSL cards of all these guys. I have a photo of the 6L6 rig and the home brew rcvr he gave me. I am sending a copy of this email to 2 college club members who were in the shack with me when we borrowed the 10/2 rig.
When I was drafted in 1968 I max'd the code test at the reception center at Ft Dix which led me to radio and RTTY schools and a safe bunker to work in at Phu Bai with the First Aviation Brigade. 220th Recon. Airplane Co., "The Catkillers".
73 Joe
K2JT
WV2IRS 1959-60
WA2IRS
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At 07:33 PM 11/16/2007, NN4AA wrote: I read with interest your article in the current (December) QST). Of particular interest was your mention of Art Moore. I met Art in 1956 and worked for him as a summer replacement engineer at WMCA in the summer of that year and in 1959. Art was a great guy, a very knowledgeable radio engineer and amateur. I had not seen Art since that time, but the picture of him in QST was instantly recognizable as I remembered him even before I read the text to confirm it. I left WMCA to work on the for RCA on the Atlantic Missile Range, subsequently going to sea on a tracking ship. Coincidentally several of the transmitter engineers at WMCA were former ship's sparks (ship radio operators) and extremely good CW operators. My last contact with Art was several years later when I sent him a tape recording of WMCA as copied on the equator, at sea about 1000 miles off the coast of Brazil. Art went back a long way with WMCA. I was saddened to learn that Art had become a silent key. The radio community has lost one of the best of the best. Jim, NN4AA |
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