Hi Chuck,
Its nearly impossible to hide those old Wullenweber arrays, even if they've been dismantled for nearly fifty years www.google.com/maps/search/bondville+rd,+scott,+il/@40.0492598,-88.3816964,440m/data=!3m1!1e3 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "charles j jr hawley" <[email protected]> To: "Jim Campbell" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2019 1:42:53 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Rhombic antenna "gain" I was in the radio direction finding group at the U of IL in the early 60's which had a Wullenweber site just west of Champaign-Urbana IL 120 antennas in a circle outside a screen supported by telephone poles. The locals had colorful ideas of what it was all about. You could listen to WWVH, Hawaii and WWV in MD separately on the same frequency by rotating receive about 180 degrees. Very impressive. Jack BMW Motorcycles Chuck KE9UW [email protected] Sent from my iPad > On Sep 13, 2019, at 7:46 PM, Jim Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > We also had Elephant Cages later on. Funny no one has mentioned them. If you > want to see a real monster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FLR-9 Also known > as a "Wullenweber" or AN/FLR-9. > > Jim - W4BQP >> On 9/13/2019 8:28 PM, Dick Dievendorff wrote: >> Small world. I was in a similar line of work, for the Navy, using an R-390, >> but I don't think we had Rhombics. This was in the mid-60's >> >> Lots of us in ham radio. >> >> 73 de Dick, K6KR >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On >> Behalf Of Jim Campbell >> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 17:21 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Rhombic antenna "gain" >> >> In the late '50s I was stationed at a field station in Northern Germany that >> was monitoring transmissions from the 'other side'. We were at a former WWII >> German airfield and had an antenna farm comprised of rhombics. I never >> bothered to count how many there were but I estimate that there were more >> than a dozen and they were in the order of 90' >> above ground. I was a ham at the time (DL4AQ) but not active. >> >> I believe that my K2 and a low 88' doublet hears better than would a rhombic >> and a SP-600 from those days. I almost can't believe the signals I'm hearing >> at the bottom of the sunspot cycle with said K2 and low 88' >> doublet. The old days weren't the good old days. >> >> 73, >> >> Jim - W4BQP >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message >> delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
