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From: w7why@mail.coos.or.us (Tom Osborne)
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 03:20:15 +0800
Charles H. Harpole wrote:
> 
> I had 500 feet of wire out and no termination and no matching device.  I
> heard nada, nothing, zilch, zero, etc.  Dummy load.  Am adding both soon.
> K4VUD

Hi Charles.  I had a 300 foot beverage out here a couple of years ago, 
with the far end grounded (no resistor).  I built a little tuner in the 
shack and used it to tune the beverage and it worked real well.  I heard 
a lot more than I could work with 100 watts.  73



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