[TowerTalk] N6AW on 30m BIG GUN SIGNAL

[Steve Zettel]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Josh Logan <jlogan@bewellnet.com>
>To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
>Date: Monday, October 19, 1998 2:21 AM
>Subject: [TowerTalk] N6AW on 30m BIG GUN SIGNAL
>
>
>>
>>Can  Rhombics be effective with Metal supports?
>>I always here about the tall telephone poles supporting Rhombics?
>
>
>Rhombics can definitely work with metal supports.  They had a whole antenna
>farm of rhombics at the old Voice of America site in Bethany Ohio, and all
>of them were supported by metal towers.
>
>
>73 - Alan NS0B

I'd second that notion; one of the primary applications for AB-105 metal
towers by the military was as support structures for rhombic antennas,

Steve Zettel  KJ7CH
near Libby, MT USA

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