[UK-CONTEST] GCHQ Antenna

[Ray - G4FON]

Many years ago the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, as it was
then, ran a radio station which included a large log periodic pointed
roughly at the US, if I recall correctly. One of the station managers was
G3XUU, Colin, and he arranged a visit for the Farnborough radio club and
Laurie, G3AQC, took along an FT101 (shows you how long ago!) to try on the
LP.

The performance was actually rather disappointing, we were there around dusk
and really did not work anything of note and signals what signals there were
were not that strong either.

I am not sure if Bob, G4HZV, is on this reflector, but I believe that he
still has some involvement with the station.

73

Ray, G4FON


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:uk-contest-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Don Field
Sent: 10 August 2007 21:11
To: UK-Contest
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] GCHQ Antenna

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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