While I was selling, designing and installing Military, Embassy and Coastal Radio Station upgrades and new installations all over Asia and their counterparts around the world I was amazed how many B&W Folded Dipoles were specified in tenders, solicitations and requirement documents. I sold hundreds of them, the customer received what the customer wants and paid for.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Herb Schoenbohm Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Topband: Antennas Price, The Military and U.S. Embassies use T2FD type of antennas all over their deployment perhaps due to the fact that they do work as long as you have plenty of horsepower to feed them with. I think the requirement of frequency agility for their requirement outweighs the inherent inefficiency. If you don't mind putting a "radiating dummy load" in the air then perhaps it is not such a bad idea. The design is still part of the military nomenclature with an ANN number and their is one on the VI national Guard building a few blocks from my office. It is hooked to a 10KW Harris 2-30 Mhz box to connect to FEMA Region 2 on a multitude of frequencies driving by the propagation at the moment. The T2FD mil spec version is supposed to be rugged enough to work through and survive a Cat 4 hurricane. None of my antennas nor towers could make that claim. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ On 8/3/2012 10:21 AM, HAROLD SMITH JR wrote: > Hi Tom, > > I am suprised that no one has brought up the "T2FD" antenna and > of course the B&W "All-Band" antenna. > > It was in one of the magazines back in the (50s?). > > 73 > Price W0RI > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
