[TenTec] It's getting cold. Perfect antenna weather for a OCF dipole

[k8mp at aol.com]

 I toured the Voice of America site near Cincinnati some years ago. (It's been QRT for some time)
Anyway, the feed-lines were made of copper pipe and to my astonishment, they used to hot-switch those things.


I bet the BBC did the same thing. How 'bout it Steve?


Later, Joe, K8MP


-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hunt <steve at karinya.net>
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 19, 2015 11:45 am
Subject: Re: [TenTec] It's getting cold. Perfect antenna weather for a OCF dipole

 
 
 
And when you want to switch between a variety of transmitters and  
open-wire-fed antennas, simply use a multi-way open-wire switch like the  
one here: 
http://www.bbceng.info/Operations/transmitter_ops/Reminiscences/skelton/sk1.htm 
 
It's just 150ft diameter and 40ft high! 
 
Skelton was my first posting with BBC engineering. At one time: "the  
World's largest and most powerful (shortwave) radio station". 
 
Steve G3TXQ 
 
 
On 19/10/2015 15:52, Rob Atkinson wrote: 
> This doesn't change the fact that every shortwave broadcast station in 
> the world uses open wire line to balanced antennas, usually rhombics 
> and dipole curtains, for covering multiple assigned frequencies across 
> HF. 
> 
 
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