[UK-CONTEST] GCHQ Antenna

[Don Field]

Went round Croughton many years ago with the Northampton Radio Club.
Fascinating! And it's grown quite a few more LPs and dishes since then.
Would love to get my hands on one of those LPs for a contest!

Don G3XTT

On 10/08/07, Ian White GM3SEK <gm3sek at ifwtech.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Dave wrote:
> >
> >"RAF" Croughton on the A43, also still has a lot of HF stuff up
> >http://www.croughton.af.mil/
> >
> That stretch of road badly needs a sign saying DANGER - SLOW RADIO
> AMATEURS!
>
> Typing "croughton" into Google Earth will take you straight there. You
> can easily see the Y-shaped spreaders for the log-periodics, which have
> mostly wire elements.
>
> Croughton is mainly a satcoms and HF receiving site. The HF transmitting
> site is 8 miles west at "RAF" Barford St John, where you can see more
> Y-boom LPDAs and some ones as well.
>
> A former CO at Barford was KL7WE, a callsign that Dave RGK will
> remember.
>
>
>
> --
>
> 73 from Ian GM3SEK
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