I've operated 2 meter moonbounce at the Stanford/SRI 150' "Big Dish". The SRI WARF OTH-R transmit site had two vertical arrays consisting of 18 FTM (folded-tilted-monopole) elements looking East and 18 TCI LP elements looking West equally spaced over a 205m base line. The arrays had a 6deg azimuthal beamwidth, steerable +/- 32 deg in 4 deg steps. This was a real band opener on 20 meters!!
Doug, W6JD -------------- Original message -------------- From: "Sam Binkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Keith Darwin asked "What is the biggest antenna you've ever used?" > > Not on the ham bands (although a couple of times we did get on the ham bands > to communicate with a vessel in distress) the 524s and 527-2-Ns (if memory > serves correctly) were used for directional and 505-1-Ns for > omni-directional, with 10KW Collins transmitters, at the Coast Guard > Communication Station in Virginia. There was also a rotatable LPA but I > don't recall the designation. The receiver site, which was about 20 miles > away, used the 505s, 612/625 loop arrays, and a rotatable LPA. The LPAs > covered 4-30 MHz. I spent 4 of my 23 Coastie years at this station. > > http://www.antenna.be/tci-52427.pdf > http://www.antenna.be/tci-5056.pdf > http://www.tcibr.com/entry.asp?PageID=185 > > 73, > Sam, KL7V > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > 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 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] 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
