Russian aerial for Bill Wright

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Apparently a very rare find indeed - a woman interested in TV aerials.

Paul DS.

A Double Diamond works wonders.

That's really good. A DIY aerial with a socio-political story attached! I'm surprised the feeder has been fastened to the dipole though!

Bill

school building portrayed as a 1959 Russian nuclear missile site.

Sounds like good camouflage. The Kelvedon Hatch nuclear bunker entrance was designed to look like a bungalow from the outside

I cannot see it of course, but I do recall when you watched East German tv on outside broadcasts via sparodic E they seemed to be using some interesting aerials. UHF Rhombics for example, and a lot or so it appeared, of band three yagis at crazy angles. Made me wonder who watched the band 1 stuff i was seeing. This was in the late 70s.

Brian

Many of them did. It was a standard design.

Yes, I thought that too!

Hah. I recall passing one such every few weeks on the way to somewhere and the construction of what was something very substantial and sinister was painfully obvious, with huge amounts of underground excavation and spoil being trucked away every time I saw it. A couple of years later, there was a bungalow, smack bang on the middle of the plot, with a couple of small outbuildings that I'd seen some very substantial pipework going to the bases of. I'm utterly certain the Russkis couldn't have known a thing about it, oh no. Totally discreet it was.