No, it was a regular manned blimp with the pilot house underneath and engines on the rear. Seemed to be doing a lot of nose-up / nose-down maneuvering, not unlike me trying to point an Arrow antenna where I imagine a satellite might be. Ok, perhaps their movement wasn't quite as much like someone swatting at a wasp as my Arrow handling is.
The visual was quite distinctive... if you were looking from the front or rear, it would be like a zero (the blimp) with the letter "X" (antenna?) riding on its back. I didn't count the elements, but my perception was perhaps 8 to 12.
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-----Original Message----- From: Bob Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 6:59 PM To: AMSAT-BB Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] Largest cross-yagi ever?
Was it this?
http://www.raytheon.com/capabilities/products/jlens/
They lost one around MD last year (broke loose).
73, Bob, WB4SON
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 6:43 PM, J. Boyd (JR2TTS) < the2belo@msd.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote:
On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:35:11 -0400, "Scott" scott23192@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway, I pulled over to take a closer look because this one was different. You could clearly see U.S. Navy markings but what really stuck out was that on top of the blimp, running its full length, was what appeared to be a cross-yagi antenna approximately equal to the inflated size of the blimp itself. This thing was HUGE!
"If I can't make it into AO-85 with *this*, I give up."
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