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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] How close does a vertical have to beto saltwatertoseeany benef
From: Jan Erik Holm <sm2ekm@telia.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:04:46 +0200
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Wow what a beautiful picture.
I have heard it too.

There is also a station from Seattle on 1000 kc/s
(I think it was) that thunders in.

/ Jim SM2EKM
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Pat Barthelow wrote:
> Thanks for the kind words, Chris,
> 
> A few of years back I gathered a Ham group to tour KGO studios and 
> Transmitter site.  What an E ticket.   KGO is one of the most powerful, 
> (50KW) widely heard audience, "Clear Channel" stations, with a North-South 
> Beam pattern, created literally with 3,  phased 1/4 wave vertical towers in 
> the extra salty water of south San Francisco Bay.
> See their "Salty Dog" antenna site:
> 
> http://www.thegenomegame.com/cluebook/sites/kgo/KGO_arial.jpg
> 
> Heard from Alaska to Central America at night.   Somewhere we posted a ton 
> of pictures of the Antenna towers, studio, and antenna tuners.   If you 
> google KGO in Google Images you will get a lot.
> 

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