[ICOM] OFF TOPIC: Do Your Neighbors Complain About Your Anenna?

[Mike Olbrisch]

Let me be first this time.

DOESN'T THIS BELONG ON TOWER TALK OR SOMETHING??? <grin>.

There - now we don't need 100 others sending the same thing.

ADAM - new blog up on River's page.

Mike - KD9KC.
El Paso, Tx.
DM61rt

Molon labe. [mo-lone lah-veh] Google it...

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:icom-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Adam Farson
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:57 PM
> To: 'ICOM Reflector'
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] OFF TOPIC: Do Your Neighbors Complain 
> About Your Anenna?
> 
> Hi Mac,
> 
> (Begging your indulgence, Dick!)
> 
> Many years ago, in a land far away, a group of fellow EE 
> students and I
> toured a Post Office Telecom fixed-service HF station. The 
> antennas were
> several rhombics and a huge Grainger Associates LPDA on a 30m 
> tower. There
> were several Marconi, Siemens and Telefunken transmitters (up 
> to 100 kW) in
> the equipment hall, and the associated receiving station 50 
> km away had
> banks of Racal and Marconi receivers.
> 
> The neighbours (mostly farmers and wine-growers) knew better than to
> complain. Gulag is a terrible place to spend Christmas.
> 
> Cheers for now, 73,
> Adam VA7OJ/AB4OJ