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Technical Topics => Equipment => Topic started by: WrongwayCorrigan on June 05, 2011, 0119 UTC

Title: Antenna Identification
Post by: WrongwayCorrigan on June 05, 2011, 0119 UTC

Can anyone identify this antenna?

(http://i.imgur.com/bJiZX.jpg)

Title: Re: Antenna Identification
Post by: DimBulb on June 05, 2011, 1733 UTC

It's an IsoPole made by AEA.  You can see the start of the AEA logo in the picture.

   http://www.rimtai.com/chtr/products/antenna/aea/isoartcl.htm

   http://www.rimtai.com/chtr/products/antenna/aea/iso.htm

   http://www.kb2ljj.com/manuals/14-Antennas/AEA_isopole_user.pdf

AEA is now defunct but the antenna is still sold by sold by Spectral

   http://www.isopole.com/

Title: Re: Antenna Identification
Post by: WrongwayCorrigan on June 06, 2011, 0247 UTC

Thank you for the detailed identification. This transmitter site appears to have been unused for quite sometime. I am trying to determine what its purpose was.

Title: Re: Antenna Identification
Post by: cmradio on June 06, 2011, 0335 UTC

They are (were?) very popular. the 2M antennas were often retuned for the 150MHz business band.

Before cell phones dominated, they dotted industrial area rooftops.

Peace!