Noticing ham radio antennas years ago

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  • This tower is installed at a nonprofit agency in order to facilitate amateur radio communications that may help the agency carry out its mission.  This is the sort of antenna system that would have intrigued the author in his youth (and still does).

  • Pictured is a 440 MHz Yagi antenna manufactured by the Cushcraft Corporation. Such an antenna could well find itself bolted to the side of an amateur radio operator's tower or mast structure.

  • This is the front of a 1990s-era Cushcraft amateur radio antenna sales brochure. Cushcraft has traditionally been an iconic manufacturer of a wide range of antennas employed in the amateur radio field.

  • This is the front of a 1990s-era Cushcraft amateur radio antenna sales brochure. Cushcraft has traditionally been an iconic manufacturer of a wide range of antennas employed in the amateur radio field.

  • This is the front of a 1990s-era Cushcraft amateur radio antenna sales brochure. Cushcraft has traditionally been an iconic manufacturer of a wide range of antennas employed in the amateur radio field.

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