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Old July 12th 08, 11:11 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
BCBlazysusan BCBlazysusan is offline
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On Jul 4, 2:40*am, RHF wrote:
On Jul 3, 8:39*pm, BCBlazysusan wrote:





HeySteve/RHF/Telamon- thanks for the responses.
I'll try an clear up what I said earlier. I just refered to a Radio
Shack antenna selection/installation and projects book. I couldn't
find an actual pic of it- they have folded dipole/yagi/stacked arrays/
multi elements/log periodic/conical arrays etc. It is not a satellite
dish. It is a parabolic circular shape antenna. There is no meshing or
anything like that but it does resemble one (dish) just for the fact
that it is in the shape of a big perfect circle.


I messed up earlier and left something out of the specs. It has 24
elements with 4" spacing between each one. If the antenna was up in
the air those elements are all horizontal with the longest element
being the one in the middle and it's 7 1/2 ft. in length. The other
elements get gradually smaller as you are going either up or down.
From the bottom of the circle to the top is exactly 7 ft. in height.
Coming directly from the middle of the circle straight forward are 8
smaller elements plus a little bow tie looking UHF {?} antenna. Can
you picture thisSteve- RHF-Telamon? After reading up on different
antennas the closest description that seems to make sense is a fringe
area antenna. With this antenna being highly directional for TV- I
mainly want to use it for shortwave........would I still need a rotor?
I know I'd need one for TV- but it wouldn't matter for shortwave-
would it?
TIA for the responses- it's an awfully nice and imposing antenna not
to be used. ;-)


BCB Lazy Susan,

What about the Channel Master 4251 Antenna ?http://www.rocketroberts.com/cm4251/...251/cm4251.htm

Also take a look at some of these UHF Yagi typehttp://www.starkelectronic..com/uhf.htm
Antennas for Fringe Area Reception.

~ RHF
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RHF!!!!!!!!!!!! That is it..........the second link. The Channel
Master tribute page. Put it this way, that looks exactly like it, I
haven't found anything even close to it before. Thanks guys for your
help- Ace-Telamon. :-) Wow I have a ChannelMaster!