[Antennas] A Sterba curtain on 6m

Mon May 26 21:02:14 EDT 2008

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From: "C Whitaker" <whitaker at pa.net>
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Subject: Re: [Antennas] A Sterba curtain on 6m
> de WB2CPN
> Now I always thought the Sterba Curtain was
> developed in Germany before WWII.

 It's possible that someone in Germany copied Sterba's curtain design
and took it back with him.
 I don't have an exact date, but the consensus is that Mr. Sterba was
an engineer for the Bell Lab system back in *1931*.
 Wow. :-)
 Anyways, I'm ordering up some parts to build one. The fun parts are
getting a good 4:1 balun, and something else that I ran across in an AES
catalog that I think I'll use, and that are the Ladder-Loc insulators that
were designed by WA1FFL. Anyways, the overall length should be just
over 37' long and 9 1/4' tall. (The articles mentioned show a curtain at
*10* meters, so of course it has to be resized for 6m, I picked out 50.5
MHz to play with. I got the ladder-line and regular wire. :-)
 _Ray_ KBØSTN