Topband: Low Dipoles

[CUTTER DAVID]

I read a comment some while ago that our impressions of what is required for our low bands is distorted by the original works done in the 30s for medium wave broadcast transmitters in USA, in that, broadcast needs are different because they are servicing a "local" population and thus need a high "local" field intensity in day time at least and want to *avoid* dx. So, the short vertical and massive ground systems are de rigueur for those transmitters.  In those days it was probably most popular for folks receiving MW broadcasts to use a low horizontal wire.   

What would be interesting in this discussion would be recorded occasions when a low dipole is used at each end of the QSO.

David G3UNA/G6CP