[Towertalk] Antennas over Salt Water.

[Earl]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earl" <ebailley@direcpc.com>
To: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Antennas over Salt Water.


> Hi Guys In the 80's  I had  a brand new Telrex tri band 3 el on the flying
> bridge of a Liquid Natural Gas Tanker.It was about 35 ft from the BIG auto
> tune vertical. Route was from Japan to Indonesia so beam pointing needed
> once per up trip or down to focus on home in the Pac NW which was done
> manually. It beat the vert. Period!  My relief op installed a rotator
which
> did not survive his four month tour.  My next tour found the director gone
> at the boom stubs and same with the ref the next trip. Still, manually
> rotating that dipole beat the Vert.  Beat it to the Pac NW.  Yeah we had
> wind!
> All the while its raison detre was to improve S/N on fax pix coming out of
> Japan..  That it did. H is better than V on a ship which is a pretty good
> noise generator in itself..
> But V is like V nowhere else. Talk about a 1000 ft steel ground plane in a
> million miles of salt water.
> Never replaced the beam so personally  moved instead to within a mile and
on
> the water of where RM used to live.
>
> Earl  W7TK
>
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> ---- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim White, K4OJ" <k4oj@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: "Ted Leaf" <tleaf@hotmail.com>; <Towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Towertalk] Antennas over Salt Water.
>
>
> > ships are always turning....making knowing which way a directional
antenna
> > was pointed too complex - it is "ever-changing" - only when at anchor
> would
> > you know your bearings...or have  a clue as to where "true North" was -
> >
> > This is not an attempt to bring that up again!
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Jim, K4OJ
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ted Leaf" <tleaf@hotmail.com>
> > To: <Towertalk@contesting.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:04 AM
> > Subject: [Towertalk] Antennas over Salt Water.
> >
> >
> > > Hi guys.
> > >
> > > All the navy and coast guard ships I have ever seen, and been on many,
> all
> > > have vertical antennas for HF.  They usually have two, on opposite
> sides,
> > > one on starboard and one on port.
> > >
> > > I have never seen a beam on one for HF.  Doesn't this say something?
> > >
> > > Ted K6HI
> > > Kona, HI
> > >
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