[Elecraft] K2 Aeronautical mobile

Mon Jun 3 16:26:59 2002

Hi

I worked for Collins radio in the mid 60's and they made this antenna in =
the building I worked in. Although I didn't work on that project if I rem=
ember right the wire was rolled out from a large wench with a cone on the=
 end of the wire. Then the plane circled and the wire would form a helix =
below the plane. I think the wire was about a mile long. One problem with=
 it was the huge static charges that would build up on the plane. I remem=
ber the cones stacked up in the basement they were about 4 or 5 feet high=
 each.

Don Brown
KD5NDB

----- Original Message -----
From: Margaret Leber
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 11:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K2 Aeronautical mobile

[email protected] wrote:
> Speaking of LOOP antennas.... the navy used to fly a C-130 a/c with a
> really long (couple of miles?) wire with a cone at the end to keep the
> end stable. The idea was to fly in a circle until you find the trailing
> cone in front of your nose.... that thats a big loop! No QSB that way!

Trailing-wire antennas are the reason we call end-fed long wires "Zepps",
since they were first used by Zepplins.

But allow me to point out that if you fly in a turn until the trailing
cone on a long wire is in front of your nose, you are probably flying in
a descending spiral.

Not sustainable for a long QSO....:-)

  73 de Maggie K3XS
    (PPSEL, 500 hours PIC time)

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