[TowerTalk] Flagpoles as a Stealth Antenna

[alsopb]

OK so one succeeds in not making the neighbors suspicious in erecting
the vertical radiator portion.

Now how does one explain the process of putting down all those wire
radials? It never occured to me that you also need stealth radials --
or at least put them down stealthfully.  2AM with miner's cap?

Don't forget radials have to be part of the solution.

73 de Brian/K3KO


K7GCO@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I In a message dated Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:25:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>  Richard Thorne <rthorne@tcac.net> writes:
>   << Hello Group:
>  A friend mentioned and idea for a stealth antenna that got me to
>  thinking.
> 
>  Anyone out there using a flagpole as a vertical?  If so is it
>  metal/fiberglass?  How do you feed it.
> 
>  Looking for multi band ideas, say 10 through 40.
> 
>  Thanks in advance.
>  73,
>   Richard Thorne
>  ARS N5ZC (ex KA2DSY, N2BHP, WB5M)
>  Remote Control Airplanes:  AMA# 657062
>  http://www.tcac.net/~rthorne/
>    >>
> Flag pole verticals were a necessity at certain locations like on top of
> Apartments with restrictions.  The Hy Gain trap verticals were stuck inside
> of 2" PVC.  It kept it real clean also.  One guy over did his patriotic
> actions too far with 3 in a triangle he could phase and it began to look
> fishy.  I was looking at an unused 65' tapered flag pole back in Sioux Falls,
> SD that was well built.  There are lots of these around.
> 
> In the book "The Death Of Lord Ha Ha", the Stealth vertical concept was used
> during WWII in NY City for the German Short Wave Broadcaster equivalent of
> Tokyo Rose.  The broadcast supposedly came from Germany.  It was a 1/4 wave
> inside a wood flag pole installed in NY City Parks by German sympathizers
> dressed as NY City workers.  The coax ran to a street parking area where a
> Milk Truck would drop a hose to the pavement.  They were lucky the Health
> Dept didn't see this.  As I recall they had a couple of these on different
> frequencies along with some other antennas on the water front like a water
> tower.
> 
> They would introduce static audio to make it sound like a normal SW
> broadcast.  However monitoring stations in NY and England noticed signal
> differences such that something was wrong with normal signal strengths and
> their directions.  In NY the signal was "strong without QSB even with static
> at times?"  He had access to certain information too quickly to be
> broadcasting from Germany.  They finally wised up, started looking in NYCity
> and found him.  It took awhile and "Bunny Hunt Techniques" in the SW Bands
> hadn't been developed yet.  Reflections in NYCity were something.  It's time
> to reread this book.  SW listening was really something in the 30's & 40's.
> The power went off here last week and let me tell you the band noise was
> really low on battery receivers.
> 
> Gamma matching a water tower is a great idea--what a buried ground system.
> There is a "160M Water Tower" out in the country 1 mile from my new QTH in SD
> and no power lines around.  I was thinking of running a 1 mile Beverage to it
> and gamma match it for a 600 ohm +/- termination.  I think big and long, I
> have it in Eznec and the Farmers are friendly  K7GCO
> 
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