[Elecraft] elfwa revisited

[G3VVT at aol.com]

In a message dated 27/03/05 18:21:39 GMT Daylight Time,  
eric_csuf at hotmail.com writes:

But the  most impressive and very well known antenna at K2USA was a rhombic,
one of  the few amateur band rhombics in existence. 


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1981 to 1985 I lived in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and was a member of the HZ1AB  
club. We had a 20m rhombic pointed right back at K2USA that was shared with 
the  US military. The performance of this was phenomenal, far better than the  
KLM KT34 that was up on the tower. I used to switch of the linear amp when  
operating with the rhombic and use the Collins KWM2 or the TS-430 we had at  the 
time barefoot, otherwise we attracted far too many callers making copy  
difficult. I was moved across the country in 1985 to a new job on the Red Sea  coast 
at Yanbu, over 1000km away and lost touch with the club. Last I  heard in 
September 2004 was that the HZ1AB licence has now been  reassigned to a Saudi 
national and the club station closed down. There are  pictures of the HZ1AB 
rhombic on the HZ1AB website when the station was moved  from the old Dhahran 
airport into Dhahran airbase:
 
 www.qsl.net/hz1ab/
 
The old rhombic was on 40 ft wooden power poles across the car park in  front 
of the old Dhahran airport domestic terminal entrance. Looks  something like 
110ft wooden poles were used at the new location in the  airbase.
 
Bob, G3VVT