Need help with antenna ID
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Re: Need help with antenna ID
you certain those are antennas?
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Re: Need help with antenna ID
We have a winner. Those are vents. The van probably doesn't have air conditioning. There is a flap on top that pops up and acts as an air scoop.High_order1 wrote:you certain those are antennas?
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Re: Need help with antenna ID
I came back here to answer that....
I saw two the other day, but couldn't get the camera in time. Just as he says, they are pop open vents. Looks like a flap on top.
...... or, they could be part of the men in black early warning system, but I am putting my money on the vent concept.
I kinda thought that earlier, btw. With that step up, it almost looks like an old prisoner transport van. Vents are usually back there to draw the funk out; you crack the front windows and open those vents and it drafts air through there when you are moving.
-Shawn
I saw two the other day, but couldn't get the camera in time. Just as he says, they are pop open vents. Looks like a flap on top.
...... or, they could be part of the men in black early warning system, but I am putting my money on the vent concept.
I kinda thought that earlier, btw. With that step up, it almost looks like an old prisoner transport van. Vents are usually back there to draw the funk out; you crack the front windows and open those vents and it drafts air through there when you are moving.
-Shawn
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Re: Need help with antenna ID
There are antennae that are low profile in design, that resemble(not oblong, but circular) for most bands. I believe they are referred to as "radome" style. Manufacturers include Antennex and (maybe) Maxrad.
Einstein, when describing radio said "Wire telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull his tail in NY and he meows in LA. And radio works the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
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Re: Need help with antenna ID
i should look for some of those, for my next prisoner transport van.


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