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Constantin Honae Timisoara Romania QCWA # 5565 |
From an article by YO2IS, translated from the Romanian:
Last days I heard, in the local FM on 2m, a discussion about the one who was YO2BC alias YR5HC year 1936 !, Eng. Honae Constantin, one of the few radio amateurs from Timisoara who were active before the war, with whom I had the pleasure to collaborate. in the 70-80s when he was interested in ultrashort waves, OSCAR satellites 7, 8 and later and ... EME.
The topic of the discussion heard was actually a QSL of YO2BC put up for sale on the E-bay by an American (probably a heir to whom the QSL was destined ?!) asking for the price of $ 10.99.
It seems, however, that someone is actually looking for information about two-letter suffixes still assignable to YO2 !, a practice that has a penultimate precedent when the YO2BZ indicative was relocated, shortly after the incumbent archi-acquaintance passed away. .
Curiously, I also accessed the site because I find that ... I am a rich man! ... the price of a QSL in the 70s reaches almost $ 100 ... Well, the tens of thousands of QSL my collection ... how much would my 1957 SWS QSL get from Goa?
For more than two decades I send my QSLs at my own expense, for years I have manufactured QSLs alone, with the linoleum mold, with the multiplier mold, with "piles" on the small printers, knowing, probably so. I will involuntarily contribute to the well-being of a smart radio enthusiast who will sell them at "used"!
At the moment I do NOT sell or buy QSLs or anything else that includes my work!
Returning to YO2BC, conf.ing. Honae Constantin, former director of the most famous technical school in Timisoara, the Technical School of Electric Power, where many famous radio amateurs from the city, YO2BB, YO2BM, have learned. YO2BD and others.
For a time he was a lecturer, holder of discipline, in the Polytechnic of Timisoara, many business leaders were students or students, he gladly visited them to solve a problem of materials for his radio amateur buildings.
He remembers him and YO2LAB, Carol, who worked as a trolley electrician and considered him his mentor in radio amateurism. He lived alone on the outskirts of the city, in the Mehala neighborhood in a poor house, used his own construction or military equipment modified by him, was a perfect telegraphist.
In the garden near the house had a 15m pillar with "armstrong" rotation where they beamed like a "Christmas tree" beams with 3 full size elements for 10, 15, 20m, the transmission line was a 300 Ohm "ribbon" inserted (weather protected) in bergmann PVC pipes!
We had learned from him how to make elements for UUS antennas made of aluminum wire recovered from the remains of 400 KV ropes! It was a fairly rigid crushed aluminum, almost 6mm in diameter, ideal even for the elements of a Yagi for 2m.
The last layers placed near the steel heart of the cable had a wire of about 2.5mm which Costy used to make (using an ingenious hand-operated device!) The wire mesh for the 6m parabolic antenna reflector ... designed for EME, but which, unfortunately, was destroyed by guile!
It was making heavy traffic in modes A (2m-10m) and B (70cm-2m) with a set of circular polarization antennas rotated in AZ-EL with Dacia parachuting wiper motors, controlled by an electronic timer mount that allowed time. for 15 minutes, almost perfect tracking of the satellites without human intervention. The antenna transmission and phasing lines were also made of 300 Ohm ribbon "hidden" in plastic tubes.
Although at an old age he was still a nonconformist, he would sometimes visit us at home for an amateur radio talk and to upset us by lighting a "National" or "Cuba" cigarette, although neither he nor we were smokers!
He was a good friend of YO2BU who attracted him to satellite traffic and to the UUS. He had a large library of electronics and radio amateurs, many books were received from radio amateurs in the US or former school colleagues left in America.
In the yard he was holding a Trabant and ... a puppy, he was self-employed and had his hands full of work.
He died in strange circumstances, his son resident in Serbia donated the equipment of a local club ... from where, as was "normal" to us, or scattered in the "four countries".
In a retrospective writing on Romanian radio amateurism, the one that was eng. Vasile Ciobanita, YO3APG, it remembers Eng. Honae Constantin as a member of the AAUSR leadership in the reorganization of 1948 ... then becomes YO2BC but curiously not it also appears in the list of authorized persons published in the magazine "RadioamÄ" no. 1 of 1957.n."
He reappears as a radio amateur SWL !, YO2-1108 in the early 60's ... I met him in a surprise at 80m CW on October 29, 1965 as YO2AIJ having 3rd class authorization!
