I hope this fits on email 'width'.
Look at this site and zoom in:
http://www.bing.com/maps/#JnE9eXAuZmFybWluZ3RvbittaW5uZXNvdGElN2Vzc3QuMCU3ZXBnLjEmYmI9NTYuODc2MDU1NjM2MTY2MiU3ZS01OC4wNTk4NjAyMjklN2UyMi4yMzMyNzM2NzcwNDAxJTdlLTExNy4yOTgxNDE0Nzk=
This is a FAA site in Farmington, Minnesota, next to the High School
football field. It's one of those Pete just mentioned.
73
Don
N8DE
Quoting Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>:
> There is one at the FAA control center in Leesburg, VA that is more
> conventional in design, though still huge - boom is a big tower section,
> and the longest elements look like they are in the 130-foot range, maybe
> with loading coils.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
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> The World Contest Station Database, updated daily at www.conteststations.com
> The Reverse Beacon Network at http://reversebeacon.net
>
>
> On 1/25/2010 2:39 PM, N4NW wrote:
>> Doubtful if you will find one in a scrap yard. When I worked for the
>> State Department and was stationed in Africa in the 80's we removed
>> the full size log from the top of the embassy in Harare, Ziimbabwe.
>>
>> It sat around the warehouse there for a year or so until the embassy
>> decided they wanted to sell it at a surplus auction. I bought it for
>> ZS6P for less than $100 then he spent about $500 having it shipped
>> from Harare to Pretoria.
>>
>> This was a huge antenna consisting of 3 each arms made for tower
>> sections about the size of Rohn 25g attached at the center on 10
>> indexing. Here is a link to a picture of one. The one on the embassy
>> did not have the tower but a pedestal. In any case - it covered
>> from 3-30MHz.
>>
>> Here is the link: http://www.antenna.be/an/ant-lph89.jpeg
>>
>>
>> At 11:32 AM 1/25/2010, Stuart Browne wrote:
>>
>>> Granger Communications used to make "embassy" LPDA's that were real big.
>>> There's probably a company near DC that has one siting in the scrap yard.
>>>
>>> WH6H
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Doug Rehman<doug@k4ac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tennadyne had some 40-20/10m logs on their website, but they are not there
>>>> currently (at least I didn't see them). I contacted them a couple
>>>> years ago
>>>> and was told that there didn't seem to be any interest in them,
>>>> so they had
>>>> stopped advertising them.
>>>>
>>>> The web page for the 40-10m log can be seen at:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20070814111223/http://www.tennadyne.com/40MeterLo
>>>
>>>>
>>> gs.htm<http://web.archive.org/web/20070814111223/http://www.tennadyne.com/40MeterLo%0Ags.htm>
>>> (
>>>
>>>> archive.org is a great site by the way for researching what web
>>>> pages looked like at some time in the past).
>>>>
>>>> There is only one version that covers from 40-10m, the T14.40M-10M:
>>>> Boom: 54'
>>>> Gain: 5.1 dBd
>>>> F-B: 15-25dB
>>>> Weight: 400#
>>>> Wind Area: 36.75 sqft
>>>> Turn Radius: 37'
>>>> Longest element: 75'
>>>> Elements: 14
>>>> Price: $3,895 (in 2007)
>>>>
>>>> Doug
>>>> K4AC
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
>>>>> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Alan Fryer
>>>>> Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 10:25 AM
>>>>> To: Tower and HF antenna construction topics.
>>>>> Subject: [TowerTalk] WTB: Large HF Log Periodic
>>>>>
>>>>> Want to see what might be out there, before ordering.
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking for a large HF log antenna, 30 FT boom or longer, preferably
>>>>> including 30m, perhaps 40M. Something on the order of a M2 7&10-30 LP8 or
>>>>>
>>>> a
>>>>
>>>>> large Tennadyne or maybe an older antenna, not sure what all was made by
>>>>> HyGain, KLM, etc. over the years.
>>>>> Please let me know what you may have that is surplus to your needs.
>>>>> Willing to drive a signifigant distance from Roanoke, VA to pick it up.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alan, N3BJ
>>>>>
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