W8UKS 1952 Burton, OH

Operator: Sam Harris

Sam working on his dish around 1960.

Sam Harris W8UKS, W1FZJ, W1BU, KP4DJN - Engineering, record setter, editor and EME great. Many motored up to the wilds of Boston to visit Sam W1FZJ. His place up a winding dirt road was a good distance from civilization. Sam was the king of Rhododendron Swamp VHF Society. It was located at Sams nearby Medford, MA QTH. The title was named after a conservation preserve. It is very difficult to tell the Sam Harris story along with his wife W1HOY and to understand their impact on this world unless you knew them and saw them work on a favorite project. The classic art of the World Above 50 MHZ was their bag. From the start in Burton and Lorain, Ohio with big antennas on the VHF scene in the 1940's to the first amateur lunar tests, the couple were tops in their class of the EME sport. It was no accident Sam was picked in the the hemispherical antenna operations at Arecibo P.R.

Sam became a SK in 1978.

QSL from the estate of DL4HQ, W0MGI
Info courtesy of W8SU, WA3FET