I was driving behind an old Volvo (early 90's I'd guess) that had a
platform on top made from an old fashion bolt-on car top carrier and
piece of 3/4 ply almost as big as the roof of the car.

Mounted in the middle of this platform was an antenna, about 12" - 18"
tall and shaped kind of like a football standing on end but squattier
- not as round as a basketball, but not as elongated as a football -
somewhere in between. It had a solid bar in the middle and 4 curved
rods at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees that gave it it's shape. It
appeared to be pretty old, like something from a 60's sci-fi flick.

Anybody know what this style of antenna is used for?

On Jan 31, 3:28�pm, DerbyDad03 <teamarr...@eznet.net> wrote:
> I was driving behind an old Volvo (early 90's I'd guess) that had a
> platform on top made from an old fashion bolt-on car top carrier and
> piece of 3/4 ply almost as big as the roof of the car.
>
> Mounted in the middle of this platform was an antenna, about 12" - 18"
> tall and shaped kind of like a football standing on end but squattier
> - not as round as a basketball, but not as elongated as a football -
> somewhere in between. It had a solid bar in the middle and 4 curved
> rods at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees that gave it it's shape. It
> appeared to be pretty old, like something from a 60's sci-fi flick.
>
> Anybody know what this style of antenna is used for?

Probably a amatuer (ham) antenna, having gone to lots of hamfests they
have all sorts of wierd antennas on vehicles

"DerbyDad03" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:28abb22f-b065-469d-87d9-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I was driving behind an old Volvo (early 90's I'd guess) that had a
> platform on top made from an old fashion bolt-on car top carrier and
> piece of 3/4 ply almost as big as the roof of the car.
>
> Mounted in the middle of this platform was an antenna, about 12" - 18"
> tall and shaped kind of like a football standing on end but squattier
> - not as round as a basketball, but not as elongated as a football -
> somewhere in between. It had a solid bar in the middle and 4 curved
> rods at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees that gave it it's shape. It
> appeared to be pretty old, like something from a 60's sci-fi flick.
>
> Anybody know what this style of antenna is used for?


Early 90's? UFO contact.

short-wave?
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> "DerbyDad03" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I was driving behind an old Volvo (early 90's I'd guess) that had a
>> platform on top made from an old fashion bolt-on car top carrier and
>> piece of 3/4 ply almost as big as the roof of the car.
>>
>> Mounted in the middle of this platform was an antenna, about 12" - 18"
>> tall and shaped kind of like a football standing on end but squattier
>> - not as round as a basketball, but not as elongated as a football -
>> somewhere in between. It had a solid bar in the middle and 4 curved
>> rods at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees that gave it it's shape. It
>> appeared to be pretty old, like something from a 60's sci-fi flick.
>>
>> Anybody know what this style of antenna is used for?
>
>
> Early 90's? UFO contact.
>

DerbyDad03 wrote:
>
> I was driving behind an old Volvo (early 90's I'd guess) that had a
> platform on top made from an old fashion bolt-on car top carrier and
> piece of 3/4 ply almost as big as the roof of the car.
>
> Mounted in the middle of this platform was an antenna, about 12" - 18"
> tall and shaped kind of like a football standing on end but squattier
> - not as round as a basketball, but not as elongated as a football -
> somewhere in between. It had a solid bar in the middle and 4 curved
> rods at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees that gave it it's shape. It
> appeared to be pretty old, like something from a 60's sci-fi flick.
>
> Anybody know what this style of antenna is used for?

What was the call sign on the license plate?

On Jan 31, 2:28 pm, DerbyDad03 <teamarr...@eznet.net> wrote:
> I was driving behind an old Volvo (early 90's I'd guess) that had a
> platform on top made from an old fashion bolt-on car top carrier and
> piece of 3/4 ply almost as big as the roof of the car.
>
> Mounted in the middle of this platform was an antenna, about 12" - 18"
> tall and shaped kind of like a football standing on end but squattier
> - not as round as a basketball, but not as elongated as a football -
> somewhere in between. It had a solid bar in the middle and 4 curved
> rods at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees that gave it it's shape. It
> appeared to be pretty old, like something from a 60's sci-fi flick.
>
> Anybody know what this style of antenna is used for?

Maybe it was some sort of old fashioned or homebrew GPS antenna.

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:41:36 -0800 (PST), "(E-Mail Removed)"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Probably a amatuer (ham) antenna, having gone to lots of hamfests they
>have all sorts of wierd antennas on vehicles

That just changed my day. All this time I thought a hamfest was about
food


Oren
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:06:56 -0800, Oren <Oren@127.0.0.1> wrote:

>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:41:36 -0800 (PST), "(E-Mail Removed)"
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>Probably a amatuer (ham) antenna, having gone to lots of hamfests they
>>have all sorts of wierd antennas on vehicles
>
>That just changed my day. All this time I thought a hamfest was about
>food
>
>
>Oren


It could have been an eggbeater antenna....
-dickm

The OP wrote:

>> Mounted in the middle of this platform was an antenna, about 12" - 18"
>> tall and shaped kind of like a football standing on end but squattier
>> - not as round as a basketball, but not as elongated as a football -
>> somewhere in between. It had a solid bar in the middle and 4 curved
>> rods at 0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees that gave it it's shape. It
>> appeared to be pretty old, like something from a 60's sci-fi flick.
>>
>> Anybody know what this style of antenna is used for?


Is this it? http://davehouston.net/eggbeater.htm

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-G-
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:25:49 GMT, dicko <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:06:56 -0800, Oren <Oren@127.0.0.1> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:41:36 -0800 (PST), "(E-Mail Removed)"
>><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>Probably a amatuer (ham) antenna, having gone to lots of hamfests they
>>>have all sorts of wierd antennas on vehicles
>>
>>That just changed my day. All this time I thought a hamfest was about
>>food
>>
>>
>>Oren
>
>
>It could have been an eggbeater antenna....
>-dickm

So when you want to beat some eggs you just flip the car on it's roof?
Oh well, it could be worse. It could be a meat beater !!!!