Легендарный W3DZZ

Chester L. Buchanan W3DZZ Born in 1915. Our subject used "Roy" on the air - What a nice surprise to learn Roy is still licensed and living in Hugo, Minn. Here is a gent that was the Holy Grail to the DX world in my beginning days of the 50s 60s 70s - Every contact would bring, "Antenna here W3DZZ." In the 1950s Roy came along with a multi-band design by inserting traps at strategic points in the antenna. Our subject was The King of trap dipoles and 3 band trap beams.

Roy's card from a CW contact in 1935 gives some revealing data; Home brew receiver and transmitter running 150 Watts. He had worked all US districts, 37 states and 12 DX countries. The card was mailed from Camden NJ to W9RBO April 8th 1935. 

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