We called that hatchet a guillotine on the KC-135 Looking Glass and the E-4
(747) aircraft. And on one flight on the E-4 I was on, we had to cut the wire
and drop it in the gulf when it jammed while reeling it back in.
By the way, I was hooked up to the Secret Service blade antenna (no Secret
Service on board without the president) on the bottom of the E-4 and worked all
up and down the state of Florida while the antenna was being reeled out. Even
got acused of jamming a QSO on 146.52 in Mobile AL between a ham and his XYL.
I could not convince him I was air mobile, as he could not hear any engine or
wind noise - HI.
73 - Jim W5ZIT
Ron Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
JK,
I am not sure, but do know there was a remote hatchet for emergency cutting of
the wire. If the aircraft had a problem did not want to take all that time
reeling in the antenna. Wire aint cheap, but a C-130 at the time went for
$25,000,000.
73, ron, n9ee/r
>From: Jeff Kincaid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 2007/09/01 Sat PM 01:40:02 CDT
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Duplexers
>
>What size wire does it take to be self supporting at that length?
>
>'JK
>
>--- In [email protected], Ron Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>... a C130 aircraft with 30,000 ft of wire hung out the back...
>
>
Ron Wright, N9EE
727-376-6575
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