[TowerTalk] Commercial Antennas

[Peter Sundberg]

Instead of the 3.5MW diesel one could use one of these and 'The Rod of God'
whip for interesting results... especially a 'one pill BIG one' would
produce some nice 'dead key' signals.

http://www.davemade.com/photos.htm

73/Peter SM2CEW



At 09:15 2003-11-01 , you wrote:
>At 01:33 AM 11/1/2003, Tim Makins, EI8IC wrote:
>>I wonder if some radio club has ever borrowed HAARP for a weekend, and put
>>it on the Ham bands ? I've occasionally heard of Hams doing this with other
>>big antennas, such as broadcast rhombics and curtains, and the huge 990'
>>dish at Arecibo.
>
>Here is a guess--
>
>1)  Probably harder to do with an array controlled by the military than
>by an array controlled by a university.
>
>2)  Each element of the array is driven by its own TX--probably difficult
>to configure so that an external TX would feed it.
>
>3)  The array is designed to transmit upwards rather than at the
>horizon.
>
>4)  Power for the array transmitters and presumably for the incidental
>steering equipment is provided by a 3.5 MW diesel generator run
>by an engine from a railroad locomotive.  Don't know the fuel
>consumption but know I can't afford it!    ;-)
>
>Again, just an educated guess.
>
>--John    W0UN 
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