Possibly aimed at its twin in Nashua, NH which is the FAA center for the
Northeast.
Carl
KM1H
----- Original Message -----
From: "Byron Lichtenwalner" <w3wkr@verizon.net>
To: "steve d" <kc8qvo@yahoo.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Name this antenna
> Steve
> Is there an FAA control center there?
>
> When I lived in Colorado the Denver Center was located in Longmont, Co.
> In
> about 1988 or 1989 they built a monster LP that looks like it might be the
> same size as the one in your picture.
>
> It was always pointed east, and suspected it was pointed at Washington,
> D.C.
>
> Byron, W3WKR.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "steve d" <kc8qvo@yahoo.com>
> To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2007 6:36 PM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Name this antenna
>
>
>>I drive a truck part time and came across this
>>(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o117/KC8QVO/random%20stuff/IMG_2427.jpg)
>>antenna on Rt. 227 in Leesburg, VA on my trip the past couple days. Does
>>anyone know whos it is and what it is for??? It is a log periodic and is
>>the largest rotatable antenna I have seen with my own eyes. The main boom
>>for the antenna is made out of triangular tower sectios. It appears to be
>>about 70 - 100' in length, from the perspective I had on it.
>>
>> The funny thing is.. I looked it up on google maps. You can actually see
>> the antenna and the shadow it, and the tower it is mounted to, cast on
>> the
>> land HI. Pretty darn big! (I dont see the two other utility towers in the
>> sat view, they must be new).
>> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=leesburg,+VA&ie=UTF8&ll=39.102961,-77.543301&spn=0.002893,0.005021&t=k&z=18&om=1
>>
>> 73,
>> Steve, KC8QVO
>>
>>
>>
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