I toured the Voice of America site near Cincinnati some years ago. (It's been
QRT for some time)
Anyway, the feed-lines were made of copper pipe and to my astonishment, they
used to hot-switch those things.
I bet the BBC did the same thing. How 'bout it Steve?
Later, Joe, K8MP
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hunt <steve@karinya.net>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 11:45 am
Subject: Re: [TenTec] It's getting cold. Perfect antenna weather for a OCF
dipole
And when you want to switch between a variety of transmitters and
open-wire-fed antennas, simply use a multi-way open-wire switch like the
one here:
http://www.bbceng.info/Operations/transmitter_ops/Reminiscences/skelton/sk1.htm
It's just 150ft diameter and 40ft high!
Skelton was my first posting with BBC engineering. At one time: "the
World's largest and most powerful (shortwave) radio station".
Steve G3TXQ
On 19/10/2015 15:52, Rob Atkinson wrote:
> This doesn't change the fact that every shortwave broadcast station in
> the world uses open wire line to balanced antennas, usually rhombics
> and dipole curtains, for covering multiple assigned frequencies across
> HF.
>
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