The longest BOG I ever deployed was 5000 feet. The QTH was the desert west
of Lancaster, California. Awsome up to about 3 MHz.
Brian, KD6NRP
BOG antennas "love" desert and sandbar locations. The actual electrical
"ground" may be much below the earth's physical surface. The problem of self
trmnation can be at much longer wire lengths, for a given frequency.
>From the Belfast Station Journal of Clarence Hansell- available through
SUNY Library; Dept. of special collections; Stony Brook University; Stony
Brook, NY 11794
The exact length of the 1920s Belfast, Maine Beverage antennas was 52,610
feet spaced 64 inches. Average height was 18 feet, and transposed at
frequent intervals.
Hansell built the first commercial, fully operational, single sideband
transmitter in Belfast 1923-1924 that was used for message & program relay
to New York.
(Note- Not sure they had supressed carrirer though)
73
Bruce
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