Topband: Elephant Cage Antennas

[Gary - N3JPU]

Brings back some fond memories! As a young A1C arriving for my first tour at
Misawa AB in 1981 I was given the task to TDR every cable in the FLR-9 from
the Goniometer to each element and repair any issues.

Gary Mitchelson
N3JPU Davidsonville, MD   FM18
http://www.mitchelson.org/

-----Original Message-----
From: topband-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:topband-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of donovanf at starpower.net
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 20:11
To: topband at contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: Elephant Cage Antennas

>I would love to have one of the giant DF antennas!  Wow!  Makes a Four
Square (or even a W0UN-style Nine Circle) array look anemic. 
>The James Bamford book on NSA "Body of Secrets" has many references to
Elephant Cage rx arrays. 
>Here's a great picture of ANFLR-9 array: 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ANFLR-9_antenna_array.jpg 
>The associated Wikipedia entry is interesting: 
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FLR-9 
>Bill