there's a couple of CB'ers in the L.A. area that better stop using 28.380, they ARE next:blink:
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there's a couple of CB'ers in the L.A. area that better stop using 28.380, they ARE next:blink:
I think you are right. I called it an Adcock array but i think it is an Elephant cage array. The real name for it is a Wullenweber antenna.
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/chicksands-1989.jpg
Brought back memories of a similar HFDF antenna near Imperial Beach CA. I saw it many times from Interstate 5 when I was down in the San Diego area but never actually visited or was even curious. Looks to be just about 1300 feet in diameter; probably close to the same size as the one in Maryland. According to GE, the Imperial Beach site was decommissioned in 1999.
WHAT?!! You saw an antenna like that and were not even curious?
Harrumph.......and you call yourself an amateur radio operator. Tsk tsk.:laugh: JK
Well, maybe a LITTLE curious ... the first few times, I was on a Navy bus getting carted around to various places while in boot camp. Never did make it to the top of my current-at-the-time "to do" list, even when I had my own wheels and wasn't in uniform except one weekend a month/2 weeks a year.
As I said, seeing this thread shook a few long-idle synapses into service and it didn't take very long at all to find the site - right where I remembered!
As I said, seeing this thread shook a few long-idle synapses into service and it didn't take very long at all to find the site - right where I remembered!
did ya ever see the HUGE Log Periodic up on the hill at Point Loma on the south side of Point Loma Blvd across from NOSC?
I'm not far from that area. I have problems reaching out though from my little unit I discovered today.
About 10 miles from home there is a Naval transmitting station. It has several 550 foot towers supporting an inverted conical LF antenna as well as several fixed wideband directional arrays. There are also three Rhode & Schwartz rotatable LPDA's. The boom sections are about 65 feet long from center and are shaped like a Y and support heavy wires. They are fully operational over the entire HF range from 3 MHz to 30 MHz. Look on Google Earth and enter
N44 58' 16.12" W63 59' 04.5" for the LPDA's and their shadows. The various other arrays including the LF array is just slightly south of the LPDA's.
I would love to have all the copper buried on that site. They used radials, screens, mats , and even solid sheets.
N44 58' 16.12" W63 59' 04.5" for the LPDA's and their shadows. The various other arrays including the LF array is just slightly south of the LPDA's.
I would love to have all the copper buried on that site. They used radials, screens, mats , and even solid sheets.
RCI Sackville is at 45°53'35.46" N 64°19'20.71" W and my house is at 45°02'37.97" N 64°11'28.76" W. It is only about 60 miles as the crow flies but is a 2 1/2 hour drive because of the way you have to go. I was up that way past the site in mid-August and at that point nothing was done. Everything was still intact but it was not on the air. I suspect it will be dismantled in the future.
RCI Sackville is at 45°53'35.46" N 64°19'20.71" W and my house is at 45°02'37.97" N 64°11'28.76" W. It is only about 60 miles as the crow flies but is a 2 1/2 hour drive because of the way you have to go. I was up that way past the site in mid-August and at that point nothing was done. Everything was still intact but it was not on the air. I suspect it will be dismantled in the future.
Kinda sad after reading this:
Sackville, N.B. residents to lose landmark radio transmission towers | CTV Atlantic News
Some of the export radios simulcast from one freq to the other.Most if you are on cb channel 28am will rebroadcast on 28380am.Connex,rci,ect...
never checked if the go from cb channel 6am to 21mhz though...will check sometime i run across one...know they go to 28380am from 28am...
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