On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:57:24 -0700, Darwin, Keith wrote: >In the mid 80's I had access to a 13 element log periodic that >covered 40 -10 meters. It was 200 feet above ground. The club >station had a Henry amp to drive it. Man, what a signal!
>Anyone know anything about this antenna? I know it was made by >Collins and was apparently designed for military use. At 10,000 >lbs, it sure was big! That was the "standard" US military HF antenna. In spite of its size, it didn't have that much gain but it was flat across the HF spectrum and could take a lot of power. About 20 years ago my former Federal employer had a chance to get one of those "for free" from an AF Reserve unit that was decommissioned. We would have had to take it down, move it about 2 miles through city streets, and re-erect it, at a cost of about $25K just in labor for licensed riggers. Our budget people couldn't come up with the money, so some other Federal or State agency got it. Would have been nice..... -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
