[Premium-Rx] Wullenweber Antenna

mikea mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Thu Sep 4 09:06:30 EDT 2003


On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:45:35PM -0400, Gary Mitchelson - N3JPU wrote:
> Brings back old memories! Know the old FLR/9 well. As a newly assigned A1C
> at Misawa AB Japan I was given my first radio maintenance assignment of
> checking out every coax run in the brickhouse between every goniometer and
> every A,B and C element with a TDR. Boy that was fun! Then when questionable
> runs were found I had to check out the connections at each antenna
> feedpoint. For the A band elements that meant climbing up Inside the ground
> sleeve.
> 
> Anyone else on the list work on these beasts?

One of the guys at work was NSG on Okinawa and tells some interesting
stories about his elephant cage there. Until now I never had more than 
stories and pictures. 

-- 
Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964



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