[Milsurplus] [AWA] strange antenna? [2 Attachments]

[Ray Fantini]

That type of antenna got no gain and would be almost useless for any communications system. If its C Band would speculate that maybe it was used back in the early days of satellite tracking and recovery, not for telemetry or anything useful like that but almost all of that old stuff in the sixties and seventies used C Band beacons because at that high a frequency you had a big doper shift and would be able to determine speed. Perhaps in addition to the VHF beacons that were on everything recovery ships and planes had that for receiving the beacon during reentry and recovery. Will have to look and see if that’s a relic from the  Agena-Corona days!

Ray F

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From: Milsurplus [mailto:milsurplus-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nick England
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 1:10 PM
To: Mike Feher
Cc: antiquewirelessassociation at yahoogroups.com; Military Surplus Mail List; CC-AWA
Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] [AWA] strange antenna? [2 Attachments]

I suspect ASW helicopter (LAMPS) air-ship communication/data link use - where else would you be able to have a narrow beam rotating airborne
*communications* link? Well maybe E-2 Hawkeye to carrier (Navy "AWACS")?
Just idle speculation - I know as much as Sgt Schultz.....
Nick
www.navy-radio.com

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Mike Feher <n4fs at eozinc.com> wrote:

> Just buy it, HI. The guy on ebay says it is C band, and proportional 
> to other components on there, that makes sense. Also, at C band that 
> horn has pretty wide beam as it is relatively small.  It has a 
> rotating joint, so, it is meant to rotate. 73 – Mike
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