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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