EscapeVelocity

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EscapeVelocity

If you find it difficult to read, I can upload larger pics. Should I?

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EscapeVelocity

Ive been looking for a Channel Master Traveling Wave which is prominetly featured on the cover, now I know what its called.

I really like the Dipole and Reflector, Inline, V-Beam Conical/Fan, and Tri-pole with Screen.

This seems to be focussed on VHF and not UHF. Bowties were around for UHF at this time...among others.

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CptlA

Retro Antennas! I bet you could find a bunch of those old antennas stashed away in barns and cellars in the midwest.

EscapeVelocity

Here is an interesting page...

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Don_M

Some of the biggest monsters of that era weighed well north of 20 pounds. My back starts to ache when I merely think about the effort required to erect one. Also got a kick out of the text in that book describing the difficulty of capturing signals strong enough to render a good color picture. Sounds rather familiar, doesn't it? We're back to the future, alright!

Thanks for that, EV. I vote for uploading a few good readable examples.

EscapeVelocity

Will do Don, Im working on a 24" widescreen and its a bit of a effort to read the pics, so I was thinking it was a bit small.

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HTNut

Isn't it funny that the bigger the screen, the smaller the writing and pictures are on it. Some of the resolutions on LCDs are ridiculous.

EscapeVelocity

Yeah, its counterintuitive! <3rd time Ive used that word in the last week!


Here are the supersized pics I promised Don. Hope you can read that.

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Eureka

This beaut is in my town, next door to the newspaper office:


I think there's one of these in town, too:

I'll try to get by the house it's on and snap a pic.