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NY0V

9/16/2016

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Episode 111 - Tom Vinson - NY0V

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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 Earhart’s 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.

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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 removed
  • Lafayette HA350 Receiver
  • Dipole15 meters
  • Knight kit Star Roamer receiver

Current Rig: 
  • Yaesu FT2000
  • Yaesu VL-1000 Quadra power amplifier
  • SteppIR Antenna

Favorite Ham Radio Activities: 
  • DX, Contesting
  • CW
  • CQ 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 Earhart’s 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 company’s deep sea discoveries:

Dakar Submarine

Nauticos Books:
  • Never Forgotten, The Search and Discovery of Israel’s Lost Submarine Dakar, by David W. Jourdan
  • The Deep Sea Quest for Amelia Earhart, by David W. Jourdan
  • The 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:
http://w0cxx.org/b-29/TankerRally.jpg


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2 Comments
Gerry Jurrens
9/20/2016 08:13:07 pm

Enter https://www.qrz.com/lookup and search N2GJ for a quick bio.

I really enjoyed the QSO with Tony Vinson. What an interesting guy! Terrific story about the search for Amelia Earhart! Very cool!

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Sidney Ross Terry link
10/29/2016 02:42:43 pm

Interview suggestions: 1.Rod Blocksome, K0DAS, ask him about Amellia Erheart search and Hamradio on trip. 2. Bob Kirby, K3NT QSO on board FIFI it's restore his number is 972-769-2674 k3nt@arrl.net b29radio.com (he will know more about reaching Rob who helped as well). 73, K5SRT@arrl.net

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