Re: [TowerTalk] 1926 Radio Transmission Line

[Bill Aycock <baycock@direcway.com>]

Why would there be a 10 mile "transmission line" from an antenna to a 
receiver, power or not, in 1926? Most receiving antennas were just wire 
tossed up into a tree, unless it was at a commercial installation.
Bill


At 11:12 AM 7/25/2004 -0400, Harold and Deborah Nelson wrote:

> Does anyone know what was used for a transmission line between an antenna 
> and the receiver?
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> For a 10 mile transmission line, did the signal have to be boosted to get 
> to the receiver.
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> Remember, for the most part, there was no electricity in rural Maine in 1926.
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> Regards,
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> Harold E. Nelson
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> Hi Pete:
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> Have you any info on the underwater transmission line that ran from Otter 
> Cliffs to Seawall on Mount Desert Island?
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> We know what the Beverage Wave Antenna looked like, but there was a 
> Beverage that ran from Brooks to Freedom, identically parallel and 10 
> miles long just like the one from Belfast to Searsmont.
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> Brooks is about 8-10 miles from Belfast, so they had a transmission line 
> that was aerial from the end of the Brooks antenna to either the Belfast 
> Plant, or the Marsh Road sub-station.
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> We want to figure out what radio engineers used for transmission line in 
> 1926.  One report has the transmission line being about a half inch 
> thick.  Maybe solid copper.
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> I am thinking that perhaps a small telegraph underwater cable might have 
> been used by RCA for the connection from Brooks to Belfast.
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> In the aerial photo attached, the line running up the page (north) is the 
> transmission line.  It meets at almost 90 degrees, the Beverage Wave 
> Antenna coming in from the west.  The transmission line, once it hits the 
> road, heads toward Belfast.  Deed easements tell us the line ran down 
> Route 203.  In that era, Route 203 was not a State road, and landowners 
> probably owned to the center of the road, hence even though the line was 
> along a road, easements were needed.
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> Tom and Bill:
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> Know anything about telegraph cable being used for radio?
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> Regards,
>
> Harold E. Nelson
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