When I purchased this property in Hawaii, there were two 830kc towers
left from the
KAIM 50KW station. I made a matching network and loaded up for the
Stew perry,
only had my exciter so ran low power, if I remember correct I was
number 1 low
power world wide.. but my memory is corrupted so would have to look it up.
Tower radiated very well and I only had it to receive on as well.
Location Im sure is part of it, but I remember at the time all advice
was against even
trying.
Worked for me.
I gave the feed point info for 830KC to a top band guru and he gave me
the L and C
needed for 160, his figures were dead on the money. Did not even need
to tune it.
73 Merv K9FD
Our club is working on a project where we will be able to use a AM
Broadcast antenna on 160 meters.
Don't get your hope up. Roughly 40 years ago, I did that, along with
another ham, at a daytimer for which another ham friend was the chief
engineer. As I recall, the station was around 830 kHz, and was in a
northwestern Chicago suburb. We had no problem loading the tower, but
couldn't hear a bloody thing, even after trying to rig a Beverage the
second night. Zero QSOs.
73, Jim K9YC
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