| W1UM 190 Nashawtuc Road Concord, MA 01742 |
Al Couvillon Formerly K6BNV, Los Angeles, CA (1953); W7IAV, Salt Lake City, UT (1970); KA1GE (1978), KB1HKR (2001); Concord, MA |
| Home: Concord, MA 01742 Middlesex County 42° 27' 24'' N, 71° 22' 21'' W Gridsquare FN42hk |
Summer: Cuttyhunk Island, MA 02713 Dukes County 41° 25' 15" N, 70° 55' 47" W Gridsquaree FN41mk |
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Concord, MA location, built in 1884 by William
Wheeler. Wheeler, a civil engineer, was co-founder of a college at Sapporo modeled after the Massachusetts
agricultural college at Amherst. He was responsible
for many municipal waterworks including that of Tokyo. W1UM antennas
are a
copper raingutter downspout hidden at right and a long dipole hidden in the
trees to right.
Rig at
each location is a Yaesu FT-847 |
Cuttyhunk Club: The Club was built
in the late 1800s as a striped-bass fishing lodge for New York gentlemen.
Cuttyhunk, on Vineyard Sound 12 miles from New Bedford, is westernmost of the
Elizabeth
Islands. The island was discovered in 1602 by the Englishman Bartholomew
Gosnold. W1UM shack is a former barn, at left. Antenna is a long
dipole running along a fence between the shack and an old cemetery next
door.
BBC coverage of 400th Anniversary of Gosnold's landing on Cuttyhunk
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