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.
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From: topband-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Herb Schoenbohm
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:30 AM
To: topband@contesting.com
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
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