[Antennas] A Sterba curtain on 6m

[David Ring]

Antennas as sharp as the ones they are using are very narrow close up,
but three or four thousand miles distant provide quite a bit of
coverage.

73

David N1EA


On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:38 AM, C Whitaker <whitaker at pa.net> wrote:
> de WB2CPN
> Now I always thought the Sterba Curtain was
> developed in Germany before WWII.  In about
> 1947 while stationed in USAF in Berlin some
> of us wisited the Deutchpost(?) relay station
> there.  A significant portion of the German
> Long Lines facilities used a 60 or 70 MHz, or
> close to that, network which survived the war.
> Yes, they did have some very tall towers, and
> yes, the beams could be steered somewhat by
> switching in various phasing sections.  And,
> for Trivia, the teletype and telephone circuits
> we used at Templehof came up from the American
> Zone via German Long Lines.  We had a few TRC-1
> but they never worked.  For HF Broadcast using
> what looks like a complicated curtain on a
> backplane, there's one on Interstate 78 in
> Pennsylvania way East of Harrisburg.  WMLK
> on 9.465 at Bethel, PA.
> 73  Clete
>
>
>
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