Topband: BCB Inv L

[Herbert Schoenbohm]

After Hurricane Georges WSTX here lost there 180 foot Rohn 45 tower and 
they called me to get them back on the air.  I got two telephone poles 
installed by the power company and had a 200 foot flat top with a 65 
foot semi vertical sloping feed over the existing ground system.  The 
bridged "T" tuning box allowed me to get a low SWR for the 5KW 
transmitter.  and this system work so good that owners refused to change 
it for years even filing for a special hardship waiver.  Locally it was 
sufficient but down the island chain the station was gone.  Eventually 
the tower was built by new owners after the previous owner filled for 
bankruptcy.  The results showed that the the distant islands down the 
chain could not receive that station.  Also it was now possible to drive 
around Eastern Puerto Rico and hear the station well on a car radio.

Yes my TB experience with inverted "L" wire antennas made all the 
difference.  The only problem was it worked so well the previous owners 
did not want to construct a replacement tower.


Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ

On 3/27/2015 11:12 PM, Art Snapper wrote:
> The radio station engineer in Moore, OK tuned a broken tower to get the
> station back on the air.
> It reminds me of an inverted L. Perhaps he is a ham.
>
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