[TowerTalk] What Is This Antenna?

[Jim Rhodes]

The reflector strips attachments unfortunately. I too remember a
description and drawing of an antenna fed across a coil something like
that. Can't recall if it was a dipole or the driven element of a 2 element
beam.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Don W7WLL <w7wll at arrl.net> wrote:

> The following is a note sent to the DX club I belong to but so far this
> antenna has NOT been identified. Thought some of the OT’s here might have a
> larger knowledge base.
>
> Don W7WLL
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> This was given to me some time ago by a non-ham who didn’t know what to do
> with it, It has been setting with my old broken and broken down beams and
> beam material for several years.
>
> The coil is 68 turns of #12 single wire spacing on a 1-1/8 core. Obviously
> there were additional element pieces but they did not come with this
> handoff. The standoffs are ceramic and the wood platform appears to be
> possibly redwood, but I’m unsure. The coil is encased in a plastic form
> like an old MasterMobile antenna, sealed both ends except where the wire
> from the coil ends come out to fasten to the elements.
>
> Somewhere in the back of my mind I seem to remember an old 40 M rotatable
> dipole like this, maybe circa ‘50’s??  I’m unsure how the antenna was fed
> but there are terminal lugs at each element end where the coil ends attach
> to the element.
>
> Looking at the construction it appears to have been a commercial
> manufacture vs homebrew.
>
> Any ideas about what it is??
>
> Pictures attached.
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