A excerpt from the March 1925 trans-Atlantic broadcast is available again on
my www.qsl.net/k1fz/beveragenotes.html page. It is large, taking time to
download.
Parts of the broadcast not included had CW QRM (someone sending V's), and
severe QSB.
This broadcast was received on a 52,610 foot wave (Beverage) antenna
consisting of two #10 wires starting at Belfast and going to South Searsmont,
on the far side of Black Brook, near Moody mountain.
The spaced wires ran South-West, but transformers were configured to receive
from the North-East,
By 1926 they had three runs spaced six miles. Total ground length 29.890 miles
of two spaced wires. Total #10 wire in the air is just under 60 miles.
Radio Corporation of America abandoned the site and antenna just after the
1929 stock market crash. By early 1930s, to well after World War II, rural
electrification took place and much of the wire went into farms across the
country side.
I saw a WEB site saying the Houlton Wave antenna of 4 phased, 3 miles long,
spaced 2 miles is probably the largest wave antenna. I don't think so !
73
Bruce-K1FZ
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