Re: [Elecraft] Rhombic antenna "gain"

[Michael P. Rioux]

I still get a kick out of thinking that I worked INSIDE of the antenna! (Rota’s 
FLR-9)

Si vis pacem, para bellum

Mike, W1USN



> On Sep 13, 2019, at 8:45 PM, Jim Campbell  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: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net 
>>  > > On
>> Behalf Of Jim Campbell
>> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 17:21
>> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net 
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> 
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Re: [Elecraft] whats a updated K3 called?

[Michael P. Rioux]

K3A


Mike, W1USN

Si vis pacem, para bellum

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> On Jan 11, 2019, at 9:24 AM, Charlie T  wrote:
> 
> It should be named "K3CharlieT".
> (After ME !)
> That way, when I get famous, your descendants can sell it as a valuable
> collectable artifact for lots of money, or whatever is used at that time for
> bartering.
> 
> 73, Charlie k3ICH
> 
> 
> If you think this is a tad absurd, you're absolutely correct.just as
> this thread has gotten.
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net  On
> Behalf Of Raymond Sills
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 8:15 AM
> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] whats a updated K3 called?
> 
> So. let's call it a K3U... (U for upgrade)... so as to distinguish it
> from a K3S.
> 
> 
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[Elecraft] Elecraft items for sale

[Michael P. Rioux]

Hi,
I have a K1 and K2 that I’d like to sell. 
Plus some other QRP-releated items.

Full details are on my website at www.rioux.org <http://www.rioux.org/>.

Items can be shipped or picked up at the Boxboro MA Hamfest this weekend if 
desired.

Thanks and 73,
Mike W1USN


Si vis pacem, para bellum

Michael P. Rioux, CISSP-ISSEP
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