Thread: My Antenna Farm
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Old May 12th 06, 08:45 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
Eric F. Richards
 
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Default My Antenna Farm

Radio TexMex wrote:

I wish . . .


http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/home/prog...966/chap2.html


- Matt


Hey, that *was* my antenna farm for a while!

Glad they put that series back up -- it was removed for a while
because of overreaction to 9/11... it's not that well-built-out a
facility, there aren't may people there, and its away from things.

For V/UHF, these were the antennas we used:

http://www.dim.com/~efricha/DSES/DSE...lly_tipped.jpg
http://www.dim.com/~efricha/DSES/DSE...ower_POV_2.jpg

For HF and below, I used an abandoned 1000 foot v-sloper pair. quite
effective on VLF -- I could pick up NDBs from Dallas there any time of
day -- or, for that matter, all the 14.1 MHz propogation beacons at
once.

As for the above dishes, well, they're run by a bunch of hams now:

http://www.dses.org/

I used to be on the board of that group. If I can find the time again
I may join back.

--
Eric F. Richards

"Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass,
often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940