[Elecraft] Big antenna - Collins 13 ele Log?

[Phil Kane]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:19:45 +0000, w6jd at comcast.net wrote:

>I've operated 2 meter moonbounce at the Stanford/SRI 150' "Big
>Dish". The SRI WARF OTH-R transmit site had two vertical arrays
>consisting of 18 FTM (folded-tilted-monopole) elements looking
>East and 18 TCI LP elements looking West equally spaced over a
>205m base line. The arrays had a 6deg azimuthal beamwidth,
>steerable +/- 32 deg in 4 deg steps. This was a real band opener
>on 20 meters!!

  I do remember those antennas, visible from I-280 and Skyline
  Drive (Palo Alto, CA).  Our radio club visited the Dish about
  10 years ago after the ownership passed from DoD to Stanford.
  Very impressive.

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   73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
   Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402