What kind of antenna is this ?

[Se7en]

What antenna is this ?



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[TonyV225]

I believe there was a conversation about these in another post a few months back Im trying to remember who was talking about these.

 

[Craig]

Direction finding of some sorts likely for signal leak detection is my best guess.

 

[Se7en]

It was on four rusted mag Mounts. neat looking

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[Captain Kilowatt]

Direction finding of some sorts likely for signal leak detection is my best guess.

And a very good guess it would be. Yeppers it's a VHF RDF antenna.

 

[n0zna]

looking for leaks or interference...bpl is bad about that...

 

[Mudfoot]

looking for leaks or interference...bpl is bad about that...

I don't think TWC dabbles with BPL. I also wouldn't say BPL leaks. It just radiates.

 

[Se7en]

I don't think TWC dabbles with BPL. I also wouldn't say BPL leaks. It just radiates.

Rf leaks ? Neato !

I'm in camarillo,ca chilling roasting some marshmellas this fire is krazy !

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[Se7en]

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[TonyV225]

There is a name for that crazy antenna When I lived in West Bend Wisconsin I had a neighbor that was a head person for Charter Communications and he had one of these on his big work truck and actually helped me with solving an unbarable Hash and Trash noise floor I was getting in my radios recieve that I couldnt figure out.

He approached me at a school Christmas concert that our kids were performing and asked me if I was getting noise through my radio antennas I said I was and it was horrible!! He told me everyday when hese driving past going to and coming home from work his meter the antenna was hooked to would go off the scale and then told me what it was and what to do and tell the power company. It was fixed within 2 days!!!

 

[Mudfoot]

What was it?

 

[Captain Kilowatt]

There is a name for that crazy antenna

It's called an Adcock RDF (Radio Direction Finding) array. Each element is electronically switched in a fashion that functions as if the array was being rotated.

 

[TonyV225]

He told me to tell the power company it was either a bad insulator or lightning arrestor and it was a lightning arrestor