On Mon, 23 May 2005 10:45:57 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005 10:35:22 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:

2400 foot vertical with a 1 square mile top hat.

Hmmm,

On reflection, that isn't in the Ham bands is it?

Well, it should be! That and Amateur Radar (and even AHAARP).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Isn't there a guy in Texas with an 80 meter beam?

And then there's w8ji & his 300 foot tower on his old cow farm.

bob
k5qwg

Bob Miller wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005 10:45:57 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:


On Mon, 23 May 2005 10:35:22 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:


2400 foot vertical with a 1 square mile top hat.

Hmmm,

On reflection, that isn't in the Ham bands is it?

Well, it should be! That and Amateur Radar (and even AHAARP).

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC


Isn't there a guy in Texas with an 80 meter beam?

And then there's w8ji & his 300 foot tower on his old cow farm.

bob
k5qwg

I always thought the biggest ham antenna was supposedly the old W6AM
rhombic on Palos Verdes peninsula.

http://home.swipnet.se/dx/porthole/w6am1.htm

On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:05:03 -0700, Jim Kelley
wrote:
I always thought the biggest ham antenna was supposedly the old W6AM
rhombic on Palos Verdes peninsula.

http://home.swipnet.se/dx/porthole/w6am1.htm

Hi Jim,

Any picture that requires a satellite view must qualify as BIG.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:17:29 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:05:03 -0700, Jim Kelley
wrote:
I always thought the biggest ham antenna was supposedly the old W6AM
rhombic on Palos Verdes peninsula.

http://home.swipnet.se/dx/porthole/w6am1.htm

Hi Jim,

Any picture that requires a satellite view must qualify as BIG.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Wullenweber's (AN/FLR-9)
that were used for radio survellence and direction-finding years ago.
They may not have been the largest, but they were certainly among the
most complex.

R

On Tue, 24 May 2005 04:25:49 GMT, Russ wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:17:29 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:05:03 -0700, Jim Kelley
wrote:
I always thought the biggest ham antenna was supposedly the old W6AM
rhombic on Palos Verdes peninsula.

http://home.swipnet.se/dx/porthole/w6am1.htm

Hi Jim,

Any picture that requires a satellite view must qualify as BIG.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Wullenweber's (AN/FLR-9)
that were used for radio survellence and direction-finding years ago.
They may not have been the largest, but they were certainly among the
most complex.

The antenna you are referring to should be spelled Wollenweber, which
in German means literally a "wool weaver". They got that name because
of their resemblance to an automatic sock making machine.

There were several of those stationed at strategic places around the
world - mostly surrounding the USSR, and they were used by our people
for the purpose of eavesdropping on Iron Curtain communications. I had
some familiarity with the project in 1984-5 working for RCA Service
Company. The project was called Maroon Archer and had been around for
some time already. For example, there was one near Stuttgart. I'm sure
they have been dismantled by now.



Bob, W9DMK, Dahlgren, VA
Replace "nobody" with my callsign for e-mail
http://www.qsl.net/w9dmk
http://zaffora/f2o.org/W9DMK/W9dmk.html

On Tue, 24 May 2005 14:02:06 GMT, (Robert
Lay) wrote:

On Tue, 24 May 2005 04:25:49 GMT, Russ wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005 18:17:29 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:

On Mon, 23 May 2005 15:05:03 -0700, Jim Kelley
wrote:
I always thought the biggest ham antenna was supposedly the old W6AM
rhombic on Palos Verdes peninsula.

http://home.swipnet.se/dx/porthole/w6am1.htm

Hi Jim,

Any picture that requires a satellite view must qualify as BIG.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Wullenweber's (AN/FLR-9)
that were used for radio survellence and direction-finding years ago.
They may not have been the largest, but they were certainly among the
most complex.

The antenna you are referring to should be spelled Wollenweber, which
in German means literally a "wool weaver". They got that name because
of their resemblance to an automatic sock making machine.

There were several of those stationed at strategic places around the
world - mostly surrounding the USSR, and they were used by our people
for the purpose of eavesdropping on Iron Curtain communications. I had
some familiarity with the project in 1984-5 working for RCA Service
Company. The project was called Maroon Archer and had been around for
some time already. For example, there was one near Stuttgart. I'm sure
they have been dismantled by now.



Bob, W9DMK, Dahlgren, VA
Replace "nobody" with my callsign for e-mail
http://www.qsl.net/w9dmk
http://zaffora/f2o.org/W9DMK/W9dmk.html


Here is what I found with Google:

http://www.answers.com/topic/wullenweber

A boyhood pal went into the Army and spent a year at Ramasun Station.
He explained it to me thirty years ago. As the article states, it is
a "Circularly Disposed Dipole Array". Other pictures show a building
in the center of the array where radio intercept operations were
conducted. The circuitry used to "rotate" the array was quite
complex. They have indeed been dismantled.

R

Dear Russ,

I appreciate the correction. Obviously the spelling was correct as it
was and the story that I had been told about it must be apocryphal. I
suppose even the surname (Familiename) Wullenweber would be a
corruption of Wollenweber. Your reference to the history of the system
proved quite interesting. Obviously, I was also wrong about the
location - although Augsberg is certainly not that far from Stuttgart
- Hi. When I lived in Wiesbaden many years ago I should have traveled
to the site and had a peak at it.



Bob, W9DMK, Dahlgren, VA
Replace "nobody" with my callsign for e-mail
http://www.qsl.net/w9dmk
http://zaffora/f2o.org/W9DMK/W9dmk.html