[TowerTalk] re 40 antenna name the flame thrower

[dan hearn]

The flamethrower was originally at the station of Bob Mitchell, N5RM
(SK) in Greenville, Texas on a 40 acre site.  It was a beefed up Wilson
full size 3 element job. He collaborated with Dick Weber, K5IU (
Rotating Tower Systems)in building and installing it. I believe Dick did
the mechanical design on the beam and installed it. They also put up the
4 stack TH7 on one of Dicks rotating towers. I believe it was called the
TH28 and was featured in CQ also.
  Bob put together an impressive low band system consisting of a central
200 ft tower supporting a number of tilted vee beams. I believe there
were 15 or 20 wires evenly spaced around the tower. Each wire came to a
wood pole about 10 ft high with a terminating resistor to ground. The
wires were quite long (don't remember the length). Adjacent wires could
be selected in any compass direction. It seemed like a killer low band
antenna but Bob told me that it was not. He said there was a large
vertical component in the output and a radial system would help its
performance. As far as I know, he never put in the radials.
  Bob was a teriffic CW operator. He was a senior executive for E
Systems and traveled frequently to military installations around the
world, including some of the rarer Pacific islands. He frequently
operated from those locations.

73, Dan, N5AR 

Kevin Adam Webz By Design N9IWW wrote:
> 
> Does someone have an article on a 40 meter beam call the flame thrower CQ
> magazine wrote it up back about 1985 it was a 3 element full size 40 meter
> beam worked great I seen it at peter Dahl site in elpaso TX looked very
> large work extremely well to I'm thinking about building on the my station.
> 
> Kevin Adam
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