[Elecraft] Rhombic antenna "gain"

[donovanf at starpower.net]

Hi mike, 


Wasn't Rota an FRD-10, not an FLR-9? 


www.google.com/maps/place/36%C2%B039'24.0%22N+6%C2%B021'54.0%22W/@36.6567863,-6.3663994,682m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0 


73 
Frank 
W3LPL 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Michael P. Rioux" <mike at rioux.org> 
To: "Jim Campbell" <jim at w4bqp.net> 
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2019 1:26:20 AM 
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Rhombic antenna "gain" 

I still get a kick out of thinking that I worked INSIDE of the antenna! (Rota’s FLR-9) 

Si vis pacem, para bellum 

Mike, W1USN 



> On Sep 13, 2019, at 8:45 PM, Jim Campbell <jim at w4bqp.net> wrote: 
> 
> We also had Elephant Cages later on. Funny no one has mentioned them. If you want to see a real monster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FLR-9 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FLR-9> Also known as a "Wullenweber" or AN/FLR-9. 
> 
> Jim - W4BQP 
> On 9/13/2019 8:28 PM, Dick Dievendorff wrote: 
>> Small world. I was in a similar line of work, for the Navy, using an R-390, 
>> but I don't think we had Rhombics. This was in the mid-60's 
>> 
>> Lots of us in ham radio. 
>> 
>> 73 de Dick, K6KR 
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net>> On 
>> Behalf Of Jim Campbell 
>> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 17:21 
>> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net <mailto:elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Rhombic antenna "gain" 
>> 
>> In the late '50s I was stationed at a field station in Northern Germany that 
>> was monitoring transmissions from the 'other side'. We were at a former WWII 
>> German airfield and had an antenna farm comprised of rhombics. I never 
>> bothered to count how many there were but I estimate that there were more 
>> than a dozen and they were in the order of 90' 
>> above ground. I was a ham at the time (DL4AQ) but not active. 
>> 
>> I believe that my K2 and a low 88' doublet hears better than would a rhombic 
>> and a SP-600 from those days. I almost can't believe the signals I'm hearing 
>> at the bottom of the sunspot cycle with said K2 and low 88' 
>> doublet. The old days weren't the good old days. 
>> 
>> 73, 
>> 
>> Jim - W4BQP 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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