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9SO - W9HHX
MSOE Ham Radio Club Photo's |
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1928 |
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Click on the thumbnail photo
to bring up a large picture. The photo
below shows the early MSOE ham club station 9SO taken
around 1928. I met one of the guys who
operated this exact station back in the late 20's.
He was a club member during this time and graduated around
1930/32. He gave me this picture of the MSOE ham radio
station 9SO taken around 1928. Bill Gainer W9SO told
me he wasn't in the photo though he was a member of the
club, just not in the shack when the photo was
taken. From an MSOE President's Newsletter that I
had, it did identify Bill Gainer as the fellow on the
right, and Norberg J. Richard on the left. The transmitter
and receiver are home made. The only commercial product in
the photo are a series of semi automatic morse code
'bugs'. The transmitter is sitting on the bench shelf just
to the right of the window. The receiver is below the
transmitter, just to the left of the operator. Note the
large speaker 'horn'. To the right of the speaker 'horn'
is a framed American Radio Relay League (ARRL) membership
certificate. Just to add interest, the clock reads around
11:30 (in the morning I assume since the windows are
bright). I am not sure what the left side operating
position consists of. I cannot see a large transmitter but
do observe a morse code hand key and headphones. The
original photo is very crisp and I have spent some time
browing the photo with a magnifying glass. I can read many
of the qsl cards on the walls.
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The gang at 9SO in 1928 |
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Click
on the thumbnail photo to bring up a large picture.
The photo above shows four
members of the 1928 9SO ham radio club. When Bill Gainer
gave me these pictures, he told me he wasn't in the
photo. He was a member of the club but wasn't there
that day. The gent shown 2nd from left is wearing a
white sweater with "C of E" logo, which stands for College
of Engineering. The original photo's are
incredibly crisp and clear. Using a magnifying glass
I can identify many of the qsl cards on the wall. If
I can contact them, I'll QSL and maybe my qsl card will
show up on the wall. Its sort of creepy to browse
the photo with a magnifying glass because it looks so real
that you could almost step back into time. |
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1976 |
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Click
on the thumbnail photo to bring up a large picture.
The photo above shows the MSOE
club station in 1976. The transmitter is the Drake T4XB,
receiver is the Drake R4B, the amplifier is the marvelous
Collins 30S1. On the panel above the Drake equipment,
upper left shows the Heathkit phone patch, center is the
HAM M rotor control meter, right of center is the Heathkit
HO-10 ham scope, and right of that is the Heathkit SWR
bridge. Sitting on top of the Collins 30S1 is the famous
HAL ST-6 Teletype terminal unit.
Rounding out the station was a Hygain TH6DXX on a 30 some
foot tower on top of the B building. This was one
format-able station! If I called someone and they didn't
come back, I knew they heard me. We used to run 980 watts
out on RTTY.
W9HHX was on the air all the time during the 1970's. We
used to run alot of RTTY, CW, and SSB. There was some 6
meter SSB activity and quite a bit of 2 meter FM activity
also. The W9HHX/R repeater was first put on the air during
this time. Tom Luck WB9BPS worked to get the 146.19/79
frequency coordinated and assigned to the club.
This console was
made by the club president in 1975, Mark Barian, as a gift
to the club. He did all the work himself, including the
design and building. It was a dandy console and
replaced a standard school table. |
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1976 VOLTA RadioTeletype
Contest Crew |
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Click
on the thumbnail photo to bring up a large picture. The photo above shows three yahoo's just after
the 1976 VOLTA Radio Teletype Contest. We came in 4th in
the world for a multioperator station. Not bad for our
first attempt at the big leagues. On the left is Tom Luck
WB9BPS, center is Ellsworth Warmouth KB4SH, and on the
right is me, Scott Freeberg WA9WFA. I am sure we are still
as young and good looking as we were 47 years ago..... The
VOLTA contest started Friday night and continued until
Sunday morning. We would operate the entire contest
period, usually two operators during the day and one
during the night. I recall our excitement at working Italy
on 80 meters during the contest! We drank a lot of
soda that night. These were some of the best times
of life. Tom WB9BPS and I have stayed in contact since
graduation. |
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Back to Milwaukee
School of Engineering W9HHX |
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