[GreenKeys] That's not a RTTY station........

jim at k6ccc.org jim at k6ccc.org
Thu Jan 23 16:51:15 EST 2020


Nick England said:
> A 28KSR connected to a 2 megawatt transmitter driving 62 miles of 1"
> antenna wire strung from 26 towers (800'-980') over a ground plane made up
> of 2000 miles of #6 copper wire. Now that's a RTTY station.....


Reminds me of a contact I made on 40M many years ago.  The guy was describing his station and said the antenna was nothing special - just a quarter wave vertical.  But the ground plane was pretty good - about 80 by 800 feet of steel plate floating on and surrounded by 2,000 miles of salt water.


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Jim Walls - K6CCC
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