>> Parts of the broadcast not included had CW QRM (someone sending V's)...
Interesting to note that QRMing of DXpeditions has a long history! Brian K1LI On 5/12/2014 at 12:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:Send Topband mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Topband digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Long wave Beverage antennas (k1fz) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 16:16:47 -0400 From: "k1fz" To: Subject: Topband: Long wave Beverage antennas Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" A excerpt from the March 1925 trans-Atlantic broadcast is available again on my www.qsl.net/k1fz/beveragenotes.html page. It is large, taking time to download. Parts of the broadcast not included had CW QRM (someone sending V's), and severe QSB. This broadcast was received on a 52,610 foot wave (Beverage) antenna consisting of two #10 wires starting at Belfast and going to South Searsmont, on the far side of Black Brook, near Moody mountain. The spaced wires ran South-West, but transformers were configured to receive from the North-East, By 1926 they had three runs spaced six miles. Total ground length 29.890 miles of two spaced wires. Total #10 wire in the air is just under 60 miles. Radio Corporation of America abandoned the site and antenna just after the 1929 stock market crash. By early 1930s, to well after World War II, rural electrification took place and much of the wire went into farms across the country side. I saw a WEB site saying the Houlton Wave antenna of 4 phased, 3 miles long, spaced 2 miles is probably the largest wave antenna. I don't think so ! 73 Bruce-K1FZ ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list [email protected] http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband ------------------------------ End of Topband Digest, Vol 137, Issue 7 *************************************** _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
