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NY0V

Posted: 16 Sep 2016 05:16 AM PDT
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Episode 111 - Tom Vinson - NY0V Imagine that you get your dream job out
of college, and later as part of that job, your employer wants you to solve
a riddle that will take years or never to complete. For Tom Vinson, NY0V,
that dream job for a ham was with the Collins Radio Company, later Rockwell
Collins, and the riddle was to assist Nauticos Corp. to find the wreckage
of Amelia Earharts Lockheed Electra L10E aircraft somewhere in the South
Pacific. He could use the technology and human resources of the company to
solve this riddle. Tom recounts this story with Eric, 4Z1UG, in this QSO
Today. Show Notes
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Ham radio jump-start: 8th grade shop industrial education - kits
with component modules.

First Elmer: Don Thomas, W9HSD, now W0PEA. Don had a Heathkit Apache,
Mohawk, Amplifier, and SB10 sideband adapter

Toms' father was high speed code operator during WW2

First License: WN9YZN, 1967, Champagne, Illinois.

Other call signs: WA9YZN, WB0OKQ, G0WVI, and NY0V

First Rig:Heathkit Apache transmitter with one 6146 output tube
removedLafayette HA350 ReceiverDipole15 metersKnight kit Star Roamer
receiver
Current Rig: Yaesu FT2000Yaesu VL-1000 Quadra power amplifierSteppIR Antenna
Favorite Ham Radio Activities: DX, ContestingCWCQ Marathon
Tom uses Writelog Contest logging software

First Field Day Station: Collins S Line

First Job: Collins Radio working KWM-2A, S-Line

Southern Illinois University in the early seventies.

Collins Radio Company

Collins Amateur Radio Club

B29 Radio project - Collins ARC members restored the radios on board "Fifi"
was ARC5 and ART13 autotuner

Jules Yoder, KW0Y: expert who repaired the ART-13 from experience during
the Berlin Airlift

FIFI B29 - restored B29 bomber with Collins radios on board.

Amelia Earharts Lockheed Electra L10E

Dan Roesler, WD0HOJ

Coast Guard Cutter Itasca

Western Electric 13A 50 watt AM transmitter

Beach 18 Tricycle gear - similar antenna configuration to the Lockheed L10E

Pima Air and Space Museum

W0CXX - Art Collins old call now Collins Radio Club

Looking for Amelia

Woodstock School, India

STEM - Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Nauticos Corporation, CEO: Dave Jourdan, author of a number of books on the
companys deep sea discoveries:

Dakar Submarine

Nauticos Books: Never Forgotten, The Search and Discovery of Israels Lost
Submarine Dakar, by David W. JourdanThe Deep Sea Quest for Amelia Earhart,
by David W. JourdanThe Search for the Japanese Fleet: USS Nautilus and the
Battle of Midway, by David W. Jourdan
ARINC Air/Ground system Rockwell Collins

VP5S 2013 - DXpedition, led by K0MD

Working the Grayline

"One call the DX station"

Shared apex receive antenna preamps

K9AY receive antenna

Pictures:
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Heathkit Apache Transmitter Lafayette HA-350 General
Coverage Receiver Yaesu FT-2000 Transceiver Restored radios
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