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Title: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: Tom WA3KLR on September 02, 2017, 11:24:13 AM
Have any of you noticed the broadband HF dipole on top of the Russian consulate building in San Francisco?  
It looks like there is a three wire cage due to the  triangular spacers.


Title: Re: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: KL7OF on September 03, 2017, 09:15:49 AM
What is that black smoke?



Title: Re: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: VE3ELQ on September 03, 2017, 10:07:12 AM
What is that black smoke?



Maybe they just elected a new Russian Pope. ;)


Title: Re: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: KD6VXI on September 03, 2017, 10:58:48 AM
Isn't that the consulate that was ordered closed?

Might explain some black smoke.......

--Shane
KD6VXI


Title: Re: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: Tom WA3KLR on September 03, 2017, 01:25:17 PM
Yep, much burning of documents and perhaps some electronics gadgetry.


Title: Re: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: W7TFO on September 03, 2017, 01:55:00 PM
Typical Russki diesel-electric backup generator exhaust? :P

73DG


Title: Re: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: W6TOM on September 03, 2017, 02:55:01 PM
  The Russian Consulate is on Pacific Heights a very expensive part of San Francisco, I remember back in the 80's when there was large Navy presence in the Bay Area, Alameda Naval Air Station and Mare Island Navy bases, they had LOTS of antennas on the roof of the consulate. Some of the neighbors complained about the "unsightly antennas", pretty is important in SF.

 So the Russians built a privacy fence along the roof perimeter to hide those antennas.


Title: Re: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: K9PNP on September 04, 2017, 12:41:59 PM
Don 't remember where the Soviet embassy was in the late 60's; been too long since I was stationed at the Presidio of San Francisco.  In any event, they had numerous antennas on the roof then, too. Land based version of a Russian trawler, so to speak. The Army and Air Force had a lot of activity in San Francisco in addition to the Navy in those days.


Title: Re: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: Steve - K4HX on September 04, 2017, 01:43:41 PM
The Soviet embassy was in Washington, DC.  ;)


Title: Re: UA3/W6 QRT
Post by: K9PNP on September 04, 2017, 03:47:45 PM
The Soviet embassy was in Washington, DC.  ;)
OOps.  Meant the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco.  My error.
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