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BCBlazysusan July 12th 08 11:13 AM

Ping RHF/Steve etc.
 
On Jul 4, 4:22*am, dxAce wrote:
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. ;-)


As I may have said before I used to see a lot of those, seemed to me down in
Indiana. As I remember they were most likely as you said for fringe area
reception.

I don't really recall seeing any up here in Michigan, but they sure seemed
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Thanks Steve for your help, I'll inspect it closer to see if I can
actually see a name or an old tag on it somewhere. But that
ChannelMaster at least 'looks' spot-on.

dxAce July 12th 08 11:16 AM

Ping RHF/Steve etc.
 


BCBlazysusan wrote:

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!


Yeah, that's the type I seemed to notice down in Indiana at least a good number of years ago. As I said before I never seemed to notice that type around
here for some reason.

dxAce
Michigan
USA



RHF July 12th 08 06:43 PM

FYI - Channel Master "Super Fringe" 8 Transistor AM Radio - The Model# 6515A
 
On Jul 12, 6:38*am, dxAce wrote:

- - wrote:
- - I have three old Channel Master radios.

- Come to think of it, I also have a Channel Master radio.
- Model 6252A. It covers the AM band and also the high
- and low public service bands. I have it in the basement
- for AM radio.

Vintage Channel Master Transistor Radio Model 6252B
http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ350012161473
AM Broadcast plus Public Service and Police Bands
13 Transistors + 2 Transistor Squelch + 10 Diodes + 1 Thermistor


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