Folks - please see my earlier post. The WWV thread has been closed.

73,
Eric
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On 8/20/2018 11:41 AM, Mike Maloney wrote:
Dual 35kW ERP synchronous transmitters and antennas for 70kW ERP at 60kHz.   
Short (for 5km wavelength!) 4x400 ft quad towers that support top hat.  Center 
connected cable is main radiator.    Hard to see getting 35kW ERP out of 100kW 
transmitter at 5000 meter wavelength for such a short stub antenna?   Pattern 
coverage at night is amazing.  Serious copper and currents in loading coil and 
ground grid!  The AC station service transformer is 500KVA.    Info from NIST 
web page.  Interesting stuff.
Mike AC5P

     On Monday, August 20, 2018 12:57 PM, Roger D Johnson <n...@roadrunner.com> 
wrote:
  Ah! LORAN C. I remember it well.

Roger CWO4, USCG (retired)


On 8/20/2018 12:54 PM, Rose wrote:
Trivia ..

The last I knew the WWVB transmitter is a "repurposed" 100KW
LORAN C TX from the closed site in ND.

73!

K0PP
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