[TowerTalk] 80 meter wire vertical

[Tom Osborne]

If you look back at pictures of the early stations, a lot of them had a
horizontal wire with 4 or 5 wires in a flat-top configuration. Most of them
were between a couple of supports and fed with a single wire.  73
Tom W7WHY


On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 8:04 PM, jimlux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:

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>>> Very old is an understatement: Cage elements were used by Heinrich and
> Guiglielmo.  I wonder when and how someone figured out that larger diameter
> worked better, and whether it was just a bigger is better idea driving it,
> or whether it is based on measurement/analysis.
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> Driving a T top load of multiple elements at the turn of the last century
> was fairly common.  There it was basically a capacitive top-hat.
> The Titanic used one in 1912, and the Columbia Radio Club used one in 1906.
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