The following was an old query that had been attached to a recent series of
emails regarding Log periodic antennas. The answer about the one near
Leesburg as being for the FAA is correct, and I was there just in the past few
weeks. Also just last week I noted the same antenna in Albuquerque, NM. FAA
facility in the NE sector of town. The Sandia's block the view to the East, so
not sure how effective it would be in that direction.
Norm W4QN
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In a message dated 10/26/2007 6:45:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
on 07 Sep 01 Sat 18:36 steve d said the following:
> >> 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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