This is a portion of the antenna farm at Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids looking due south toward the Engineering Building. These antennas are part of Comm-Central, a commercial HF radio station operated by the Collins company. The directional antennas are Collins Log Periodics and mono-band beams. The antenna farm was built in 1962 and is the "business end" of some very powerful state-of-the-art Collins HF transmitters. The photo was made during an inspection tour by the Collins Collectors Association in August 1996.

For serious DX-ing, you might try building a couple of billboard arrays! This view looks northwest and shows three billboards. The one at the left is a directional 100-foot tall array for 9-27 MHz which can be "electrically" rotated 360 degrees. The structure on the right is actually two arrays-- one for 9-27 MHz aimed at 330 degrees and another for 3-6 MHz aimed at 315 degrees. Sadly, the low-band array was demolished in late October 1996.