[TowerTalk] Wire Rope

[Richard (Rick) Karlquist]

On 9/9/2020 8:19 PM, jimlux wrote:
> 
> But other than hams, who would that be? The state department uses 
> stainless steel cable folded terminated dipoles and amps that put out 
> 1kW from 1mW drive.

AFAIK, those antennas are intentionally lossy so they "match" the
transmitter over a broad range of frequencies, along the lines
of the infamous MAXCOM dummy load/antenna.

Rick N6RK