[TowerTalk] Topband: mystery low band antenna between Chevrol and Goujon, France (near St Emilion)

[Jan Erik Holm]

Yes but if it´s a slant-wire reflector why make it like
a cage? , personaly I see no need.
IMO if it´s a radiator (i e slanted-vertical) I can see
why they would make it like a cage.

73 Jim SM2EKM


K9AY wrote:

> de K3NA
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>>   I am curious about the use and design of an unusual high
>>power, low band antenna which I saw recently while cycling
>>in France.  I wonder if anyone knows anything about it.
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> It's probably France Info on 1206 kHz (300 kW).  Open-wire coax is common 
> for power at this level, as is stub matching.  Slant-wire reflectors are 
> used to make broad directional patterns, usually with about 3 dB gain and 
> several dB F/B.  With the slant wire NE of the tower, it would beam into the 
> city of Bordeaux, and on to the coast.  This station is an easy one for US 
> BCB DXers to hear, since it is high power, beamed more-or-less our way, and 
> on a frequency that lies mid-way between the 10 kHz US channels.
> 
> 73, Gary
> K9AY
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