Quote:
Originally Posted by IrvingtonVFD43
That FG 1560 that you are probably seeing on the equipment shed is a Lo-Band antenna used for Metorcomm, which receives data from the engine and uses metor scatter to send engine data back. BNSF uses is exclusively across the system.
The majority of the antennas used on defect detector sheds are no more that a 1/4 wave surface mount Maxrad antenna.
The wierd antenna may be a microwave link to a tower to send back detector info to the dispatcher.
I could be wrong, though, but yes, pictures would be nice.
|
The FG1560 Laird Antenna is a VHF antenna used to trainsmit the detector audio and actually both antennas are VHF antennas. I have pictures at home so I'll post them later tonight.