Pete, et. al.:
In covering several Gulf Coast hurricanes as a news reporter back in the 1970s
and 80s I've ended up at numerous oceanside Coast Guard stations along the
Texas and Louisiana gulf coasts. I always asked to look at their
communications gear, etc after making contact with the officer in charge
(actually rode out one hurricane with the half dozen crew members who stayed
behind at one station). At nearly every one I noticed they always had a large
(looked like fiberglass possibly HF) vertical antenna mounted on the end of a
pier with what looked like 4-6 inch wide copper strips down the support and who
knows how far into the water. By the side of it, usually 20-30 ft. tall, it
definitely didn't appear VHF Marine related.
Tom, WW5L
Pete Smith wrote:
> At 10:49 AM 3/12/02 EST, K7LXC wrote:
> > Too high? Just ask the guys on mountain tops if they're too high.
>
> Gave up asking those guys a long time ago <g>. There's a lot of folklore
> out there, but there's also a very good section in Dave Leeson's book on
> hilltop locations and their up- and downsides.
>
> > Actually for JA they had 'beach antennas' mounted at the bottom of the
> >bluff aimed up Puget Sound. The 300' bluff behind them added LOTS of
> >attentuation to those pesky W6's and W5's trying to work the same path.
>
> That's kind of what I figured. Open wire feedlines?
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
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