When the army issued me the MARS station in 'Nam in early April 1969 and I put
AB8AAO on the air, the antenna I got was the smaller version of what you are
looking for. The LP antenna I signed for only tuned 7 MHz to 30 MHz. We
mounted it on an 80' telephone pole (10' in the ground and guyed on 3-sides)
and the engineer unit headquartered down the street set the pole and antenna
for my wire and cable platoon with their 20-ton mobile crane. I forgot how
much the antenna weighed (I remember it took 8 or 10 guys to man-handle the
crate out of the truck) and it took my SGT and his guys 3-days to assemble it.
We had solid contact with CONUS 12 - 16 hrs/day back then to run phone patches
for everyone. The radio set we used was the army AN/FRC-93 system ... a
Collins KWM-2A xcvr, 30L-1 amp, 312B5 outboard VFO/phone patch station
controller, and 516F power supply.
Steve - N1BKB
back then 1LT, USAR, SigC
On Saturday, April 20, 2024 at 02:53:42 PM PDT, JP K <jp@ezoom.net> wrote:
7 tons is the shipping weight, and that includes the tower as well.
J.P. W2XX
> On Apr 20, 2024, at 2:35 PM, Richard Solomon <dickw1ksz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Wow, 7 Tons !!
>
> That will be some tower !!
>
> 73, Dick, W1KSZ
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> On Sat, Apr 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM GEO Badger via TowerTalk <
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>> One click with Dr Google. Try it, you'll like it.
>> https://www.antennas.com/product/lph-24/
>> https://www.usantennaproducts.com/antennas/model-lp-1112mr/
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