[BC] KFEQ 680 Tower Comes Down

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Maintenance? WCHA in Chambersburg, PA was the first station I saw that used open-wire. It went on the air in the '40s, has been on the air continuously since with zero maintenance to the transmission line. They used a simple coupler at the TX building so that any transmitter designed for 50 ohms would work, even though the line was about 210 ohms. These things have very little loss. WCHA's has four outer wires and two inners.

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Mathis" <thebeaver32 at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:08:48 PM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: [BC] KFEQ 680 Tower Comes Down

No, I meant that the OTHER way. For that little power, maintaining open-wire
line may not be worth it. I notice in some other pictures on their website,
they appear to have several coax cables strung along the poles as well.