[TowerTalk] name that antenna

[Barry]

I believe that's the spot, in the mid 70s, I was part of a Field Day 
operation with (then) young ops N2NT, K3UA and a few others I'm 
forgetting now.  I found some neat, old glass insulators on the ground, 
some of which I still have.
Barry W2UP

donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> The New York Radio transmitter site is in Riverhead, NY at 40 52 54 N,
> 72 38 15 W.  This is a small part of the historic RCA Riverhead
> receiver station and the RCA Laboratories where Harold H Beverage did
> developed the Beverage antenna, other directive receiving antennas, and diversity reception.
>
> The New York Radio receiver site is in Southampton, NY at 40 55 15 N,
> 72 23 41 W.  This is also a historic site, the location of the HF 
> transmitter facilities of Federal Telegraph, later Mackay Radio, later
> park of ITT.
>
> The antennas at both Radio New York facilities are clearly visible on Google Earth.
>
> 73!
> Frank
> W3LPL
>
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
>   
>> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:39:31 -0400
>> From: Jim Jarvis <jimjarvis at optonline.net>  
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] name that antenna  
>> To: towertalk at contesting.com
>>
>>
>> The FAA and other countries aviation agencies still
>> maintains contact with trans-oceanic flights via HF.
>>
>> For the transatlantic traffic, it's Gander NF, and 
>> Shannon EI which are the comm centers.  They have similar 
>> lpda's to those found in Nashua NH and Leesburg VA.
>> I've also heard New York Center on the 8Megs freq, but I 
>> haven't seen that site.    
>>
>> If you go to Antigua, you'll see an array of LPDA's, of a
>> different design.  They use 3 structural elements, deployed
>> at 120 degree increments around the central structure.  The
>> forward one is longer than the two 'back' ones....and the 
>> dipoles are strung between catenary wires which extend between
>> the three 'booms'.  This structure can be balanced for physical 
>> mass and windload.  
>>
>> I doubt that the FAA used the HF facilities for backhaul 
>> between centers.  The radar info is too intense and too
>> frequently updated to be supported by available HF bandwidth.
>> Rather, I believe those sites are legacy/backups for the
>> HF trans oceanic traffic.  
>>
>>
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Barry Kutner, W2UP             Newtown, PA