[SOC] Strange phenomenon occurring ....

Wed May 6 09:49:45 EDT 2015

As a SOC member in good standing a it pleases me to know that I have no 
idea what you guys are talking about!

Tom
WB2QDG

SOC # ....errr I forget.

On 5/6/2015 12:05 AM, NG7A wrote:
> Very cool that you made some down at 70 MHZ.  John's book was also our go to reference at a radar simulation and instrumentation laboratory in the same area a few decades later.  His knack of explaining things thoroughly without snowing the reader Is refreshing.   Still refer to it often :)
>
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>> On May 5, 2015, at 4:09 PM, Joseph L Pontek Sr <v31jp1957 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's funny your bring up John and his helical antennas as I was justlooking his book, "Antennas" two days ago.
>> In the mid 60s, I worked for a company in the DC area and we used his helical in a passive radar system.
>> I think I wore out a pair shoes walking back and forth on the antenna range as we made adjustments.
>> John's book was my bible!  I was going to bring it back from Texas, but like other things, I ran out of room.
>> We wound them on fiberglass tubes and covered them with heat shrink to load down the frequency.
>> Seems like we did make a couple for 70 MHz as well, but are project was for K & L bands.
>>
>>
>>> On 5/5/2015 3:52 PM, NG7A wrote:
>>> Or just build W8JK's Helical antenna (he's the inventor) to really narrow things down.  Normally they re used to produce pencil beams in the microwave regions, but JK actually built one for 10 MHz.  The 15 M version should be twice as easy:)
>>>
>>> 73 NG7A
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