[Elecraft] Monmouth pics - Rhombic antenna "gain"

[Mike Markowski]

Dave,

I took some photos as the shut down was under way in 2011. I wish I had
taken some sooner, even a week earlier. They're at:

http://udel.edu/~mm/ham/monmouth

73,
Mike ab3ap

On Sat, Sep 14, 2019, 11:14 AM David Olean <k1whs at metrocast.net> wrote:

> I was a lowly 2nd Lieutenant at Ft Monmouth in 1968. I was going thru a
> tropo scatter class. I used to love to drop in to K2USA in that wooden
> barracks building.  I don't remember much except that it was waay cool
> to me.  I wonder if there are any pictures of the place online?
>
> Dave K1WHS
>
> On 9/13/2019 11:17 PM, EricJ wrote:
> > Maybe the termination was changed in later years. I was permanently
> > assigned to K2USA from '63-'65 (not bad duty for a ham). We ran
> > thousands of phone patches to/from SE Asia on that rhombic and the 20m
> > monobander @ 90 feet. I used to break into QSOs between two local VKs
> > chatting via ground wave with that antenna. I was the only signal they
> > could hear.
> >
> > You probably knew Mike Reason. When I was there, he was a local kid
> > who used to hang out at the MARS station. Great guy, now SK.
> >
> > Eric KE6US
> >
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