STs in front of BIG things.....

[alans1100]

Non directional aircraft beacon beside the Sturt Highway at Annadale. https://goo.gl/maps/vEeLSui8R1s

20180915_171843 by Alan, on Flickr

[Gadget]

Non directional aircraft beacon beside the Sturt Highway at Annadale. https://goo.gl/maps/vEeLSui8R1s

20180915_171843 by Alan, on Flickr

Do you have the GPS coordinates for that? I'll check it against our database at work.

TBH, it looks like a HF dipole antenna to me, which are directional.

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[Brock]

TBH, it looks like a HF dipole antenna to me, which are directional.

While NDB antenna usually look like this


They can be of the long wire type.

[alans1100]

Do you have the GPS coordinates for that? I'll check it against our database at work.

TBH, it looks like a HF dipole antenna to me, which are directional.

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I new it was some type of navigation beacon but not what for and I found one in this link. http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/NDB%20BLT%202-05.htm

-34.392107, 139.349723 from the google map link I posted prior

[Jdbiker]

This one must have been posted a million times 🤓

[Jdbiker]

and this one 🤓

[Biggles]

Brook's NDB may well be the newer technology, but I know the NDBs at country airports I've used are the "clothesline" type antenna.

[Biggles]

and this one 🤓

I'm seeing the "big thing" there as the massive paintings on standard silos.  I need to inflict pedantry equally so Stinky Pete doesn't feel persecuted.   

I haven't even bothered with the standard antenna...   

[StinkyPete]

and this one 🤓

I need to inflict pedantry equally so Stinky Pete doesn't feel persecuted.   

Thanks....   I think.   

[alans1100]

I'm seeing the "big thing" there as the massive paintings on standard silos.  I need to inflict pedantry equally so Stinky Pete doesn't feel persecuted.   

I haven't even bothered with the standard antenna...   

Going back to the first post the idea I think was to get the bike in a Big touristy type object. Whether the size of the object is important or not isn't stated though you have hinted at it in the second or third post. In general I think some of us just get something that is bigger than the bike as the post title implies.

[Gadget]

Do you have the GPS coordinates for that? I'll check it against our database at work.

TBH, it looks like a HF dipole antenna to me, which are directional.

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I new it was some type of navigation beacon but not what for and I found one in this link. http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/NDB%20BLT%202-05.htm

-34.392107, 139.349723 from the google map link I posted prior

You were correct, it was an NDB called Stonefield NDB (waypoint VILAD). It was inatalled 11th May 1981 decommissioned on 26 May 2016. It T56.

The previous NDB at the same location was installed 29 Sep 1976.


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[Gadget]

Also, it is an NDB with a Folded Flat Top antenna. This compensates for the 1/4 wavelength being around 30 metres.

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[alans1100]

Big Dice Winininnie SA

DSC_1879 by Alan, on Flickr

[Bodø]

Winnininnie.

Winninowie is on the Port Augusta Highway.

[alans1100]

Winnininnie.

Winninowie is on the Port Augusta Highway.

Just realised that when looking at the map to post it elsewhere - just came back to change it. Anyway spelling isn't far off for either of them.

[Nigel]

Might just have been rolling the Dice and came up craps////////////////

[StinkyPete]

Here's a Big Bee that I stumbled across at Victor Harbor SA, which was out the front of the home of a bloke that does metal fabrication.
That brings my tally of Big Things to 97.   

[Shillas]

3 to go for a ton 😂

[StinkyPete]

Big Tyre Swan - Lyndoch SA

Back in the 1960's these were all the rage, and there's plenty of instuctions on YouTube detailing how to make one.   I have know of this Big Swan for a while, so went for a ride to bag it today.  A polite knock on the door to let the home owners know what I was doing,  was answered by an old lady who invited me in.  The old chap that made it is now wheelchair bound, and he told me he made it around 20 years ago from a tractor tyre, and cut it using nothing more than a small kitchen pairing knife, lubricated with plain water.

[Biggles]

It's wonderful how our motorcycles lead to making connections with people.   
The old guy will be thinking about that for days.  Then he'l be telling everyone he sees.    :beers
I like the way they have got the front yard nice and easy-to-maintain.  It would always look tidy.

[Bodø]

A big apple in Balhannah, South Australia.  It's not on the wikipedia page of big things but it as big as the one on the list I passed in Acacia Ridge, Queensland last year.

[StinkyPete]

The Big Knitting Needles - Hay Shearers Hall of Fame

That is my 100th Big Thing photo.   

[CallMeSteve]

The Big Knitting Needles - Hay Shearers Hall of Fame

That is my 100th Big Thing photo.   

Good stuff! Except that it’s not an ST, and it’s not even ‘in front’ of the big thing. Well not from where the camera sits anyhow.   

[JuST Peter]

The Big Spider - Urana NSW

That spider's got nine legs

[Kev Murphy]

... or it is over-endowed in relation to other body parts 

Nah!... just shadows!