Re: Topband: Topband Digest, Vol 160, Issue 8

[John Scott via Topband]

I too could not finish watching..sad.


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Today's Topics:

  1. VOA antenna farm (Katz Ajamas)
  2. Re: VOA antenna farm (william radice)
  3. Re: VOA antenna farm (Gary Smith)


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From: Katz Ajamas 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcsbny8PFZw


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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 14:09:23 +
From: william radice 
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 OMG, this is so sad I almost cried:'( :'(
BILL K4OWR

On 4/8/2016 9:30 AM, Katz Ajamas wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcsbny8PFZw
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Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 10:59:21 -0400
From: "Gary Smith" 
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Subject: Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm
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I didn't finish watching it. How many hams 
could have had their dreams met with the 
towers and cabling they strip mined.

Our tax dollars in action.

Gary
KA1J
 
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Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm

[donovanf]

122.3 meters (401 feet) 


http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/asrResults.jsp;JSESSIONID_ASRSEARCH=X19LXLdBczTTxNbVJZ8Lb1Jn61nmF1BbRvQwxjgMCQWC8Qn3JL78!-1047012790!-1281443459?searchType=TRL
 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 

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From: "Tim Shoppa"  
To: "Dave Blaschke, w5un"  
Cc: "william radice" , topband@contesting.com 
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 5:42:47 PM 
Subject: Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm 

In my neighborhood, the WMAL site is being redeveloped for housing but I 
don't know exactly when the towers are coming down. 4 quarter-waves for 
630kc so almost 400 feet each? 

Tim N3QE 

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Dave Blaschke, w5un  wrote: 

> This is almost sinful. What an awful waste. 
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> Dave, W5UN 
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> On 4/8/2016 3:09 PM, william radice wrote: 
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>>  OMG, this is so sad I almost cried:'( :'( 
>> BILL K4OWR 
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>> On 4/8/2016 9:30 AM, Katz Ajamas wrote: 
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Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm

[donovanf]

Hi Lee, 


It doesn't have to end this way... 



The U.S. Navy AN/FPS-12 Over the Horizon Radar (one of a series 
of 1960s and 1970s CHECKROTE HF radars ) in White House, 
Virginia was dismantled in 1987 to make way for the Navy's new 
AN/TPS-71 OTH radar. A commercial tower company owned 
by a PVRC member dismantled hundreds of Folded Triangular 
Monopole (FTM) antennas and thousands of feet of reflecting screens. 
Fortunately for me and dozens of other hams their contract included 
removal of all antenna related components and full salvage rights. 


Just a tiny fraction of the components from the FTM arrays and 
reflecting screens and some additional antennas on the site found their 
way into dozens of ham stations, For example, five hundred feet of 
AB-105 tower, six large 14-30 MHz log periodic arrays, miles and 
miles of RG-17, RG-8 and 1/2 inch hardline coax, dozens of 7 inch 
diameter 40 foot monopoles and hundreds of vacuum relays found 
their way to W3LPL. At least one of K3LR's towers and several of 
N4AF's towers came from the dismantled AN/FPS-112 facility. 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 





- Original Message -

From: "Lee STRAHAN"  
To: topband@contesting.com 
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 5:51:05 PM 
Subject: Topband: VOA antenna farm 

These two sites are also gone now. Hauled away for scrap. Acres of stainless 
mesh wire ground plane as well. 
http://www.k7tjr.com/fps118_oth_radar.htm 

Lee K7TJR 
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Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm

[kolson]

My suspicion is that the government saved tax dollars tearing it down this way. 
What's sad is that we are no longer interested in telling our story to the 
world through SW radio. Yeah, I know, "Da I nternet"... 
  
Hard to believe that there wasn't some other way to save a buck than cutting 
VOA. Many p eople around the world learned English via VOA and I suspect it 
spread some goodwill in general. Oh well. 

Kevin K3OX 

- Original Message -

From: "Gary Smith"  
To: Topband@contesting.com 
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 10:59:21 AM 
Subject: Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm 

I didn't finish watching it. How many hams 
could have had their dreams met with the 
towers and cabling they strip mined. 

Our tax dollars in action. 

Gary 
KA1J 
  
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcsbny8PFZw 
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Topband: VOA antenna farm

[Lee STRAHAN]

These two sites are also gone now. Hauled away for scrap. Acres of stainless 
mesh wire ground plane as well.
http://www.k7tjr.com/fps118_oth_radar.htm

Lee  K7TJR
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Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm

[Tim Shoppa]

In my neighborhood, the WMAL site is being redeveloped for housing but I
don't know exactly when the towers are coming down.  4 quarter-waves for
630kc so almost 400 feet each?

Tim N3QE

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Dave Blaschke, w5un  wrote:

> This is almost sinful. What an awful waste.
>
> Dave, W5UN
>
>
> On 4/8/2016 3:09 PM, william radice wrote:
>
>>  OMG, this is so sad I almost cried:'( :'(
>> BILL K4OWR
>>
>> On 4/8/2016 9:30 AM, Katz Ajamas wrote:
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Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm

[Dave Blaschke, w5un]

This is almost sinful. What an awful waste.

Dave, W5UN

On 4/8/2016 3:09 PM, william radice wrote:

 OMG, this is so sad I almost cried:'( :'(
BILL K4OWR

On 4/8/2016 9:30 AM, Katz Ajamas wrote:

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Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm

[Gary Smith]

I didn't finish watching it. How many hams 
could have had their dreams met with the 
towers and cabling they strip mined.

Our tax dollars in action.

Gary
KA1J
 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcsbny8PFZw
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Re: Topband: VOA antenna farm

[william radice]

 OMG, this is so sad I almost cried:'( :'(
BILL K4OWR

On 4/8/2016 9:30 AM, Katz Ajamas wrote:
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Topband: VOA antenna farm

[Katz Ajamas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcsbny8PFZw
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