I have seen some loooong telephone poles spliced. It was in 1962
outside Walker AFB NM (long gone). On a hilltop north east of
town near the VOR was an HF helix like you have never seen. It
was tuned for HF band and was rotatable!! Sorry to say, I have
searched and searched and found no one to tell what the facility
really was. I got a few peeps inside before they slammed the doors
in my face. I estimate that it was an early experimental OTH site
running around 100KW ( 4+ giant EIMAC tubes---4CX25000A3 or something like
that---Collins transmitter). Had no ham facilities on line to have heard what
might have been coming out of it. Seems to me that there
was a steel-looking collar splicing the boom where the two telephone
poles butted each other.
It was a long time ago. Maybe some one on here can recall that site.
Warren; W5KKW
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