He had a big signal and a good location. At the better part of the sunspot cycle you could hear Seymour more on 15 meters he had huge long boom Yagi on 15 meters combined with his location? and he was the only signal on the band at 5/9+30Db.? ?I could routinely hear? his signal and echo on both long and short path. Even if you removed the power from? his equation he was still loud and had a terrain advantage that nobody else could match. It was amusing listening to the idiots complaining about his splatter when he overloaded their receivers when he had none. They were all using lousy receivers and his IMD was very good, one of the cleanest signals on the band.
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One thing that was interesting was that Seymour used a Beverage on the higher bands to listen to very weak stations. He could hear stations that Dale, Ray W6ZR and many others could not hear. His signal became worst when he decided to use a Quagi that eventually fell down. He ran a dipole on 20 meters for a short period of time and consistently his signal was better than the majority with this dipole up high. There was only one station louder than him who was located on the same mountain, I think his call was W6BH that had a remote? super station right on the peak of the mountain with pretuned amplifiers. He was not on very often however you would take note when someone was 10Db stronger than Seymour. I used to use a Rohde ESH2 calibrated receiver to give comparisons and front to back reports when they fighting to be the loudest signal on the block.
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Dale K6UA had a similar advantage firing over the pacific with sloping terrain. Terrain enhanced hams are always the real big guns.
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Now its all? the big guns have gone silent from the West Coast, theres no regular rag chewers or antenna tests on the bands these days. Mel W6FDR is about the only big signal that you hear regularly. The good old days? of big guns are gone. The End Fed? antenna from the packet crowd that you cant hear.
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Henry
