SK: Eric Jamieson VK5LP
Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2013 9:36 am
Eric conducted the VHF-UHF An Expanding World column in AR over decades.
He was awarded an OAM for his community work (IIRC).
Eric was undoubtedly a remarkable guy.
I presented a paper at the 1979 Future Amateur Communications Techniques (FACT) Symposium on "Investigations of Long-Distance VHF/UHF Amateur Contacts Across the Geomagnetic Equator".
After reviewing what had been published on 144 MHz TEP in QST and Radio Communication, I provided an analysis of the JA-VK experience, as reported in AR. I paid tribute to Eric VK5LP for the quality of his reporting. Here's what I said:
"I have completed an analysis of the 144 MHz Australia-Japan contacts for 1978 reported by Graham VK8GB and Brian VK8VV. The reports were taken from the column 'VHF-UHF An Expanding World' conduced by Eric Jamieson VK5LP in the WIA's journal 'Amateur Radio'.
"It is a tribute to the meticulous, detailed and accurate accounts that Eric gives in his column that I have been able to do a reasonable analysis and reduction of the data presented. It's a pity more column writers in this field couldn't follow his lead."
In the early 1970s, during the time I worked at IPS Radio & Space Services and we were doing some VHF propagation research, Eric's column proved a good "go-to" resource for "what happened" on the VHF bands.
In late-1971 or early-1972, Eric came to visit me at Birchgrove in Sydney and we spent some hours chewing the fat about matters VHF-UHF, and especially about the worth of beacons.
He was a staunch 6UP subscriber during the 1970s and we exchanged correspondence from time to time.
As others have noted in other forums, Eric's column was where I went first on receiving AR every month.
The history of 6m DX put together by Eric and Steve VK3OT is a unique record, unmatched anywhere.
To paraphrase a famous song: So long Eric, it's been good to know you.
73, Roger Harrison VK2ZRH
He was awarded an OAM for his community work (IIRC).
Eric was undoubtedly a remarkable guy.
I presented a paper at the 1979 Future Amateur Communications Techniques (FACT) Symposium on "Investigations of Long-Distance VHF/UHF Amateur Contacts Across the Geomagnetic Equator".
After reviewing what had been published on 144 MHz TEP in QST and Radio Communication, I provided an analysis of the JA-VK experience, as reported in AR. I paid tribute to Eric VK5LP for the quality of his reporting. Here's what I said:
"I have completed an analysis of the 144 MHz Australia-Japan contacts for 1978 reported by Graham VK8GB and Brian VK8VV. The reports were taken from the column 'VHF-UHF An Expanding World' conduced by Eric Jamieson VK5LP in the WIA's journal 'Amateur Radio'.
"It is a tribute to the meticulous, detailed and accurate accounts that Eric gives in his column that I have been able to do a reasonable analysis and reduction of the data presented. It's a pity more column writers in this field couldn't follow his lead."
In the early 1970s, during the time I worked at IPS Radio & Space Services and we were doing some VHF propagation research, Eric's column proved a good "go-to" resource for "what happened" on the VHF bands.
In late-1971 or early-1972, Eric came to visit me at Birchgrove in Sydney and we spent some hours chewing the fat about matters VHF-UHF, and especially about the worth of beacons.
He was a staunch 6UP subscriber during the 1970s and we exchanged correspondence from time to time.
As others have noted in other forums, Eric's column was where I went first on receiving AR every month.
The history of 6m DX put together by Eric and Steve VK3OT is a unique record, unmatched anywhere.
To paraphrase a famous song: So long Eric, it's been good to know you.
73, Roger Harrison VK2ZRH