Infamous Antennas of the World

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FM

Cell Phone Towers

Odd Antennas

InFamous Places

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Traveling this summer? Consider visiting some of the world’s most InFamous Antennas …

Cell Phone Towers

Sheds! Closeup (Thank you to Tom Brown)

Barn (Thank you to Tom Brown)

Tree Can you really HIDE a tree? (Thank you to Tom Brown)

Will someone please send me a picture of a CACTUS antenna??

Building-mounted (Thank you to Tom Brown)

Building-mounted (Thank you to Tom Brown)

Tower (Thank you to Tom Brown)

Tower (Thank you to Tom Brown)

Tower (Thank you to Tom Brown)

On Power Line Tower (Thank you to Tom Brown)

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Odd Antennas

What’s This (a good joke to start your lecture on Horn antennas) (Thank you to Lance Griffiths)

Can-Tenna

Palm-Tenna (thank you to Demetre Koumanakos) 1 2 3

Another Palm Tree (thank you to Peter Nevermann)

Camouflaged Antennas (trees, cacti, rocks, etc.) (Thanks to Catherine Freeman)

Asian Cooking Equipment Antennas

InFamous Places

Aricebo Radio Telescope (Puerto Rico) Made InFamous by the movie “Contact”

Sentosa island, Signapore (Cynthia Furse)

Hong Kong (most tall buildings have base stations on them) (Cynthia Furse)

Yokohama (closeup) (far) (Cynthia Furse)

Little Mermaid (Copenhagen) (Cynthia Furse)

Stone Mountain (Georgia, US) (Cynthia Furse)

Eisenhower Office Bldg (across from White House, Wash DC, USA) (Ross Stone) Story Photo1 Photo2

AM Broadcasting Antennas

KFAM 700 kHz SLC, Utah

Antenna Tower

Feed System

Inductive Matching Coil

Near Amber Fort, Rajastan, India

FM Broadcasting

Power Point “Tour” of FM station (Thank you to Lance Griffiths)

HAM

Perhaps the Tallest HAM tower on record (Thank you to Wolfgang Wetz)

Wire Antenna Arrays (Yagi, Log Periodic, etc.)

Yagi antennas (a LOT of them!) near Nice, France (Thank you to J-F. Zurcher)

TV Antennas

Near Vevey, above Lake Geneva (Thank you to J-F. Zurcher)