Just wonder if anyone has ever made a large one maybe on a 60 ft boom. Jack List Sponsored by AN Wireless: AN Wireless handles Rohn tower systems, Trylon Titan towers, coax, hardline and more. Also c
The military and DoD use some humongous LPA's. As I recall, ours (Navy Comm Station) were good for 8-32 mhz. FAA also uses them. They are extremely large and use a pretty good sized tower section for
The Commo Section at our Da Nang Headquarters used a LARGE (emphasize L A R G E) LPA. Boom was about 64' and *appeared* to use Rohn 25 as the boom material!! I *think* the elements were all interconn
We just installed large phased log system for Special Forces 3rd Group at Ft. Bragg. www.arraysolutions.com Has the info and some pictures. Jay -- Jay Terleski Array Solutions - RME Filters Phased Ar
Gary... the array you are talking about was made by Hy-Gain... the boom was Rohn 45 (not 25) and the boom was longer than 64'... don't remember the exact dimensions. We used Hughey's to put our up...
We didn't, either, wasn't allowed. Of course, occasionally you have to tune up somewhere for a short transmitter test. :-) 73, Jerry W5KP List Sponsored by AN Wireless: AN Wireless handles Rohn tower
Author: thompson@mindspring.com (David L. Thompson)
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:17:01 -0400
I have a Hy-Gain catalog from the late 60's that has all the big LPA's. Some go as low as 3Mhz with big booms. It also has all the ham antennas listed along with the original commercial long johns ma
You're probably right, Pete, but that 15 KW up there at 200+' fed by a big pressurized heliax hardline can make up for a lot of disadvantage in gain! 73, Jerry W5KP range. List Sponsored by AN Wirele
You ground radio types had all the fun! Was in a mobile outfit most of the time so our ground radio types used a discone with a skirt and those HY-Gain stainless steel tape measure dipoles. Overseas