I sold dozens to a contractor that was supplying R&R ham gear to Gulf War
II. The package included TS-450's and feedback was they worked very well for
out of hamband phone patches, etc.
Carl
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From: "W0UCE" <w0uce@nc.rr.com>
To: "'Herb Schoenbohm'" <herbs@vitelcom.net>; <topband@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:12 PM
Subject: Topband: T2FD Antennas
> While I was selling, designing and installing Military, Embassy and
> Coastal
> Radio Station upgrades and new installations all over Asia and their
> counterparts around the world I was amazed how many B&W Folded Dipoles
> were
> specified in tenders, solicitations and requirement documents. I sold
> hundreds of them, the customer received what the customer wants and paid
> for.
>
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> From: topband-bounces@contesting.com
> [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com]
> On Behalf Of Herb Schoenbohm
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:30 AM
> To: topband@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: Antennas
>
> Price, The Military and U.S. Embassies use T2FD type of antennas all
> over their deployment perhaps due to the fact that they do work as long
> as you have plenty of horsepower to feed them with. I think the
> requirement of frequency agility for their requirement outweighs the
> inherent inefficiency. If you don't mind putting a "radiating dummy
> load" in the air then perhaps it is not such a bad idea. The design is
> still part of the military nomenclature with an ANN number and their is
> one on the VI national Guard building a few blocks from my office. It
> is hooked to a 10KW Harris 2-30 Mhz box to connect to FEMA Region 2 on a
> multitude of frequencies driving by the propagation at the moment. The
> T2FD mil spec version is supposed to be rugged enough to work through
> and survive a Cat 4 hurricane. None of my antennas nor towers could make
> that claim.
>
>
> Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
>
>
>
> On 8/3/2012 10:21 AM, HAROLD SMITH JR wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> I am suprised that no one has brought up the "T2FD" antenna and
>> of course the B&W "All-Band" antenna.
>>
>> It was in one of the magazines back in the (50s?).
>>
>> 73
>> Price W0RI
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