[TenTec] Wet ladderline

[Jim Brown]

On 8/13/2013 7:14 PM, Joel Hallas wrote:
> Good observations, and I have also seen European HF broadcast curtain arrays
> using our friends, the open wire line. It works as well today as it did in
> 1930.

We saw lots of coaxial open wire line when our U of Cincy EE class of 
1964 toured the Crosley-operated VOA facility in Mason, OH, feeding a 
lovely field of rhombics and three Sterba Curtains. It was a great lab 
tour for the Transmission Lines course we had just finished.

Nearly 50 years later, i saw more of it when I toured historical shore 
stations along the Pacific Coast with K3NA and W3DQ. Relatively small 
gauge in the coast RX antenna farm, bigger stuff in the TX antenna farm.

http://www.radiomarine.org/gallery/show?keyword=ksmstation

A few years ago, I drove by the Delano, CA VOA station enroute to Las 
Vegas. The antenna farm is mostly still there, but I understand that 
equipment from the transmitter building has been moved to other sites. I 
was hoping that a tour might be arranged for attendees of the Visalia DX 
convention, but so far that has not been possible.

73, Jim K9YC