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Re: [TowerTalk] New FAA regulations affecting towers

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] New FAA regulations affecting towers
From: <lstoskopf@cox.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 22:59:39 -0400
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Waaay back in the early 50s when I was just getting started there was a Ham in 
central Kansas whose job was keeping oil wells pumping.  He and his wife lived 
in a very small house right in the middle of a batch of those 90 ft derricks 
that we all think of when we think of Texas oil.  Anyway, he had a long length 
of wire running from his 'mud room' to one of the towers, then to another, etc 
for maybe 5 or 6 towers and back to the shack. The towers were probably 800 ft 
spaced.   Fed with a open balanced tuner.  I'm not sure what bands he was on, 
but he could work DX!!!!!!  RF's got to go somewhere!

So wondering how a long wire antenna fits into the regulation?  His would have 
be a very invisible airplane catcher.

N0UU
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