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Re: Topband: VOA Antennas

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Subject: Re: Topband: VOA Antennas
From: GALE STEWARD via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Reply-to: GALE STEWARD <k3nd@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 20:08:30 +0000 (UTC)
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WOW! That is wild! Not sure that I'd want to be standing that close...

Stew K3ND


      From: Chuck Hutton <charlesh3@msn.com>
 To: "topband@contesting.com" <topband@contesting.com> 
 Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 3:21 PM
 Subject: Re: Topband: VOA Antennas
   
And for those that like to be closer to a lot of power while producing arcs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNawh4faZM8

Chuck

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From: Topband <topband-bounces@contesting.com> on behalf of Mike Waters 
<mikewate@gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 9, 2016 7:00 PM
To: dick.bingham
Cc: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: VOA Antennas

The Sterba curtain at the old Bethany, Ohio VOA had 20 dB of gain. I saw it
up close during a ham club trip years ago.

Hams that worked there would sometimes drive out next to it at night, and
connect their mobile transceivers to it for a night of DX fun.

The RF field in front of that antenna was so intense that one could
sometimes hear the program audio emanate from tiny arcs in a low, rusty
barbed wire fence along the road in front of that huge Sterba.

That enormous antenna, fed with huge Collins and Crosley transmitters
re-defined the word "awesome". :-)

Across the road from that fence were a number of newer houses, BTW. Helps
prove that shortwave never hurt anyone, doesn't it?

73, Mike
www.w0btu.com

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 12:40 PM, dick.bingham <dick.bingham@gmail.com>
wrote:

> What was the gain/beamwidth of these arrays ? The ERP must have been
> incredible given the high power transmitters used plus the antenna gain .
> Migratory Geese could have warmed themselves as they flew thru the region.
>
> 73 Dick/w7wkr CN97uj
>
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