ANTENTOP- 01- 2012, # 016

Underground Antennas

Below there are pasted some messages from the topic on Underground Antennas from the ham- radio forum on CQHAM.RU. Time of the message is DD/MM/YY/HH/MinMin.

Hi my friends. Again we return to the Underground Antennas. I believe it is very interesting thematic for the radio amateur. Lots Underground antennas are history for the radio communication. Lots of them still in the military service...

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Forum: Underground Antennas

Andrey 1967 (RA6AMP)

05.08.2012 15:38

I was involved in construction of an Underground Antenna in 1985. It was at Saratov Region, RVSN division (Reference 1).

There were two trenches in two meter depth and 150- meter length. The trenches were located at 90 degree each other. Cable in diameter 80- 100-mm was placed into the trench in sharp of a snake. Above the cable there were sand and small gravel...

UR7EY

Figure 1: Shevron RVSN

05.08.2012 20:54

Quote from Reference ("Crimea in the WWII 1941- 1945 years. Compendium of the documents and materials".- Publishing House "Tavpiya", Simferopol, 1973 (Reference 2) about the famous 30- artillery division (Reference 3).

"30- artillery division was blocked by German troops at June- 17, 1942. Telephone communication with the division was absent from June -15 when mobile group of German soldiers, that entered inside soviet defense line near Perovskiy sovhoz, destroyed air and underground telephone cable. Radio communication was break off on 16- June when there were destroyed all on- ground antennas. The attempt to establish communication with help of underground antenna was unsuccessful".

Figure 2 Shevron RVSN Saratov Region

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