The Sterba curtain at the old Bethany, Ohio VOA had 20 dB of gain. I saw it up close during a ham club trip years ago.
Hams that worked there would sometimes drive out next to it at night, and connect their mobile transceivers to it for a night of DX fun. The RF field in front of that antenna was so intense that one could sometimes hear the program audio emanate from tiny arcs in a low, rusty barbed wire fence along the road in front of that huge Sterba. That enormous antenna, fed with huge Collins and Crosley transmitters re-defined the word "awesome". :-) Across the road from that fence were a number of newer houses, BTW. Helps prove that shortwave never hurt anyone, doesn't it? 73, Mike www.w0btu.com On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:40 PM, dick.bingham <[email protected]> wrote: > What was the gain/beamwidth of these arrays ? The ERP must have been > incredible given the high power transmitters used plus the antenna gain . > Migratory Geese could have warmed themselves as they flew thru the region. > > 73 Dick/w7wkr CN97uj > _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
