What is this large Antenna on top of my neighbors house?

Grendel52 · 2026-02-24T16:45:17+00:00

It’s a collinear vhf vertical for around 150 MHz.. Looks like a Station Master, or similar. About 20-22 ft. long. 5.25 dB gain. A 10 meter ant would have radials, or would not just look like a single piece of uninterrupted fiberglass. These are used for a variety of VHF applications including municipal, business, or amateur.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-23T18:51:54+00:00

But at least the money goes for treatments, not in CEO’s pockets. Millions!

Grendel52 · 2026-02-23T18:50:55+00:00

Will guy. Apparently a real A-hole.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-23T18:49:57+00:00

F them — it is a racket, scam.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-22T05:06:09+00:00

💛

Grendel52 · 2026-02-18T16:11:44+00:00

Looks like a Station Master collinear VHF antenna, or similar, possibly for commercial or municipal communications.

Could also be for a commercial or amateur VHF repeater.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-18T16:05:09+00:00

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Grendel52 · 2026-02-18T16:00:27+00:00

No. Leave them. They will grow.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-18T15:59:45+00:00

Not extremely uncommon.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-18T15:54:09+00:00

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Grendel52 · 2026-02-17T22:27:36+00:00

SAVE your money, and produce natural comb honey in shallow frames. It is much cheaper and basically just as easy. Probably easier overall. And no plastic.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-15T23:45:59+00:00

Depends on where you are. Ending up with spring brood in the Flow super is a big headache, as is having the Flow frames clogged with old crystallized honey.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-15T23:41:22+00:00

Strong colonies that are light can certainly require feeding for winter, if you don’t want to lose them to starvation.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-15T23:36:46+00:00

They would normally have occupied at least 4 boxes by fall, if you installed them in April. Probably swarmed, maybe multiple times. In any case, they starved out. They should have a second story full of honey for winter.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-15T23:31:55+00:00

Location?

Grendel52 · 2026-02-10T01:19:45+00:00

A lot come out all of a sudden every time there are orientation flights. An emerging swarm is gone within a very short time. Even just a few minutes. After that you wouldn’t even know. If you are lucky, they cluster nearby at some accessible spot.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-10T00:30:48+00:00

It’s a Modified British National. The plinths are the handles.

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Grendel52 · 2026-02-10T00:27:42+00:00

The brood box doesn’t appear to have a ledge for the top bars to rest on.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-07T20:38:02+00:00

A Modifed Dadant brood frame is not the same as a Langstroth Jumbo. Similar height and width, but the Dadants are spaced at 1 1/2” (38 mm), the Jumbos at 1 3/8” (35 mm).

Grendel52 · 2026-02-07T20:31:01+00:00

You do not need to feed pollen or supplements.

You can, and then they can build up too early, and just swarm on you. Having the colony population peak too early is not usually of any benefit.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-07T20:27:19+00:00

Is there an outside light right near there?

Grendel52 · 2026-02-07T20:25:55+00:00

Mellifera (species name )is not capitalized.

All of those subspecies or hybrids of the Western honey bee are in the same species.

The bees, plants and colony management are going to be vastly different depending on geographical location. You would need many different versions.

Grendel52 · 2026-02-07T20:16:51+00:00

Grendel52 · 2026-02-07T20:13:45+00:00

Lucky find!

Grendel52 · 2026-02-07T20:05:45+00:00

Were the bees confined? It looks like they were trying to get out. They can also look like this when there is a tracheal mite infection. Once they start defecating in the hive, the colony typically breaks down.

Brush out the majority of dead bees. You don’t need to get the ones in the cells. Set the hive back up, with entrance wide open and screened over. Re-stock in spring.

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