[Elecraft] Rhombic antenna "gain"

[Bob W7AVK]

Do a google on W6AM.  Don was a ham's ham with many Rhombic antennas.  
Years ago he and W1FH for several years would exchange being on the top 
of the DXCC list.

Interesting reading.

73  Bob  W7AVK


On 9/13/2019 8:22 PM, donovanf at starpower.net wrote:
> Hi mike,
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> Wasn't Rota an FRD-10, not an FLR-9?
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> 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
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> 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
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>> 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
>>>
>>> .