[TowerTalk] FAA Log Periodics

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The following was an old query that had been attached to a recent series of  
emails regarding Log periodic antennas.  The answer about the one near  
Leesburg as being for the FAA is correct, and I was there just in the past few  
weeks.  Also just last week I noted the same antenna in Albuquerque, NM.  FAA 
facility in the NE sector of town. The Sandia's block the view to the East,  so 
not sure how effective it would be in that direction.
 
Norm W4QN
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In a message dated 10/26/2007 6:45:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
towertalk-request at contesting.com writes:
on 07 Sep 01 Sat 18:36 steve d said  the following:
> >> I drive a truck part time and came across  this
> >> 
>  
(http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o117/KC8QVO/random%20stuff/IMG_2427.jpg)
>  >> antenna on Rt. 227 in Leesburg, VA on my trip the past couple days.  
Does
> >> anyone know whos it is and what it is for??? It is a log  periodic and is
> >> the largest rotatable antenna I have seen with  my own eyes. The main 
boom
> >> for the antenna is made out of  triangular tower sectios. It appears to 
be
> >> about 70 - 100' in  length, from the perspective I had on it.
> >>
>  >>   The funny thing is.. I looked it up on google maps. You can  actually
> >> see the antenna and the shadow it, and the tower it is  mounted to, cast
> >> on the land HI. Pretty darn big! (I dont see  the two other utility 
towers
> >> in the sat view, they must be  new).
> >> 
>  
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=leesburg,+VA&ie=UTF8&ll=39.102961,-77.543301&spn=0.002893,0.005021&t=k&z=18&om=1
>  >>
> >>   73,
> >>   Steve,  KC8QVO





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