Antenna installations around the lighthouse "Bovbjerg Fyr" - at the
western coast of Denmark
At the lighthouse "Bovbjerg Fyr" there is two interresting antenna systems - a lightening direction finder and a coast emergency radio system. Below there are some pictures of the two systems.
For the danish readers there are more information, about the lightening direction finder, at the NET Professor homepage.
For the danish readers there are more information, about the coast emergency radio system, at the Danish Defence home page (page 8 of 12 "A-2-2") and at the private ptt company TDC's homepage.
The lightning direction finder - about 50 meters north of Bovbjerg Fyr.
One more picture of the lightning direction finder.
A picture of the lightning direction finder from the top of Bovbjer Fyr.
The antenna at the left is used for coast emergency radio transmission at the North Sea.
One picture of the coast emergency radio antenna. The antenna at the left background is the AIS/VOR/xxx(HF freq.)/mobile antenna tower at Ramme at the west coast of Denmark. Read more about the AIS/VOR/XXX/mobile antenna tower in Ramme here.
A little more zoom.
And even more zoom.
The fundament of the coast emergency radio antenna. The cable leads to the transmitter/receiver (often called a transceiver) inside Bovbjerg Fyr.
The top of the antenna.
The complete antenna.
The coast emergency radio antenna and the VOR/AIS/xxx(HF freq.)/mobile antenna tower at Ramme.
More zoom.
The transceiver of the coast emergency radio system - inside Bovbjerg Fyr.
More zoom and more details.
And now the coast emergency radio frequencies are visible (2182kHz, 2078 kHz and 2111 kHz)
More Zoom...
Look here to see how to make groundings at the top of a Lighthouse. The pictures are alle from the top of Bovbjerg Fyr.
More grounding...
More grounding...
Grounding the banister...
Outside the "edge" - and more grounding...
The grounding finnaly reaches the ground - mother eath...
Map of the area around Bovbjerg Fyr. You will find more "tourist" pictures of Bovbjerg Fyr here (will arrive late august 2006).
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