[Lowfer] Aerial Type Designation, help please.

[Ed Tanton]

A turnstile antenna is a pair of dipoles at right angles to each other and
fed 90 degrees out-of-phase. The name is from a similarity to an entryway
where you walk through such as at a stadium or subway entrance.

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On Behalf Of PAUL DAULTON
Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:16 AM
To: w8au at sssnet.com; evp at pacbell.net; lowfer at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Aerial Type Designation, help please.

Perry is that what is reffered to as a "turnstyle" antenna?
-----Original Message-----
From: w8au at sssnet.com
Sent: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:57:33 -0400
To: evp at pacbell.net,<lowfer at mailman.qth.net> 
Subject: Re: [Lowfer] Aerial Type Designation, help please.
 
 
At 08:47 PM 3/23/2009, you wrote:  
> Don't know if there's an "official" name but certainly  
> Marconi and others used such a configuration "way back when".  
>  
>"I am trying to find the correct name for an aerial described thus:-  
>  
>Four vertical support masts, A, B, C & D in rotation. With two wires -
 one  
>between A & C, the other between B & D. The two wires are joined where
 they  
>bisect each other. At this bisection joint, a vertical wire drops down to
  
>the transmitter or tuning unit beneath. Thus, a vertical monopole with a  
>crossed top-hat, but is there a more professional designation?  
 
Just a version of the "Marconi T." A vertical with capacity hat.  
 
Perry w8au  
 
 
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