The original W4GAC and his station around 1940
It's came a long way since then --
Located at American Red Cross building at 818 4th Street North, St. Petersburg, FL
Operating positions with coverage from 1.8 MHz thru 450 MHz.
Antenna switching panel.
Tennadyne T-8 Log Periodic at 65' 20 - 10 M
Other antennas: Alpha Delta DXA sloper at 55' for 160/80/40
Homemade 3 band ground plane for 30/20/15 M
Vertical antennas for 50, 144, 220 and 440 MHz
Here it is .... the infamous homebrew W4GAC tri-band vertical ground plane antenna. The entire antenna is made with donatedhardware.
The original antenna was a commercial made 27 MHz 5/8 wave vertical which met its doom during a Floridalightning storm. The only pieces left that were used is the 30 meter
vertical element. The radial wires were left over from a40/80 meter dipole that use to grace the Red Cross roof. Standoff insulators are PVC fittings with a black painted finish coat.
The 20 and 15 meter vertical elements are from a spool of #4 soft drawn aluminum wire that I purchased at a Chester tailgate. The mount is fabricated from 1" aluminum angle stock.
The antenna is mounted between two AC units on the Red Cross roof.
The antenna project group: Richard, KG4MRH, Ron, KP2N, Dave, KR4U, Tom, W4CU.