• Woodpecker Antenna Becomes Drone Obstacle Course

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT to QST on Sun Jul 31 18:31:44 2016
    Subject: Woodpecker Antenna Becomes Drone Obstacle Course
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    07/31/2016

    Veteran hams remember the infamous "Russian Woodpecker" over-the-horizon radar that wreaked havoc on the HF bands in years past. Recently, Anthony Cake, HB9EIG/G1RUL (son of Brian Cake, KF2YN, author of ARRL's Antenna Designer's Notebook[1]), journeyed to one of the antenna sites in Ukraine to use it as an obstacle course for drone flying. Click here[2] to watch the wild video.


    [1] http://www.arrl.org/shop/The-ARRL-Antenna-Designer-s-Notebook/
    [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhJpdCZNSDc

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