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OT: What's This Antenna For? DerbyDad03 01-31-2008
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Posted by DerbyDad03 on January 31, 2008, 3:28 pm
I was driving behind an old Volvo (early 90's I'd guess) that had a
platform on top made from an old fashion bolt-on car top carrier and
piece of 3/4 ply almost as big as the roof of the car.

Mounted in the middle of this platform was an antenna, about 12" - 18"
tall and shaped kind of like a football standing on end but squattier
- not as round as a basketball, but not as elongated as a football -
somewhere in between. It had a solid bar in the middle and 4 curved
rods at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees that gave it it's shape. It
appeared to be pretty old, like something from a 60's sci-fi flick.

Anybody know what this style of antenna is used for?

Posted by hallerb@aol.com on January 31, 2008, 3:41 pm
> I was driving behind an old Volvo (early 90's I'd guess) that had a
> platform on top made from an old fashion bolt-on car top carrier and
> piece of 3/4 ply almost as big as the roof of the car.
>
> Mounted in the middle of this platform was an antenna, about 12" - 18"
> tall and shaped kind of like a football standing on end but squattier
> - not as round as a basketball, but not as elongated as a football -
> somewhere in between. It had a solid bar in the middle and 4 curved
> rods at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees that gave it it's shape. It
> appeared to be pretty old, like something from a 60's sci-fi flick.
>
> Anybody know what this style of antenna is used for?

Probably a amatuer (ham) antenna, having gone to lots of hamfests they
have all sorts of wierd antennas on vehicles

Posted by Oren on January 31, 2008, 6:06 pm
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:41:36 -0800 (PST), "hallerb@aol.com"

>Probably a amatuer (ham) antenna, having gone to lots of hamfests they
>have all sorts of wierd antennas on vehicles

That just changed my day. All this time I thought a hamfest was about
food:)


Oren
--

Posted by dicko on January 31, 2008, 7:25 pm

>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:41:36 -0800 (PST), "hallerb@aol.com"
>
>>Probably a amatuer (ham) antenna, having gone to lots of hamfests they
>>have all sorts of wierd antennas on vehicles
>
>That just changed my day. All this time I thought a hamfest was about
>food:)
>
>
>Oren


It could have been an eggbeater antenna....
-dickm


Posted by on February 1, 2008, 4:51 pm

wrote:

>
>>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:41:36 -0800 (PST), "hallerb@aol.com"
>>
>>>Probably a amatuer (ham) antenna, having gone to lots of hamfests they
>>>have all sorts of wierd antennas on vehicles
>>
>>That just changed my day. All this time I thought a hamfest was about
>>food:)
>>
>>
>>Oren
>
>
>It could have been an eggbeater antenna....
>-dickm

So when you want to beat some eggs you just flip the car on it's roof?
Oh well, it could be worse. It could be a meat beater !!!!

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