[BC] Open wire transmission lines Hi Power Medium Wave

[Kent Winrich]

PICTURES PLEASE???

Sheeesh 2MW into a 5 el array????


On 11/30/06, DHultsman5 at aol.com <DHultsman5 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/29/2006 6:29:41 PM Central Standard Time,
> kwinrich at gmail.com writes:
> Arent a lot of high power (400kW+) stations running open line?
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>
> A couple of the 2 megaWatt Medium Wave systems we installed in Saudi  used
> 8
> Inch rigid line from the transmitter to tower number four.  It was a
> standard
> series fed tower.  Needless to say you could NOT be in the doghouse when
> it
> was on at full power.  This was a five tower array.   It essentially was a
> five
> fower in-line Yagi on its side. The front tower was parasitically excited
> and
> was the director, the back three towers were parasitically excited
> rreflectors.  I don't recall what the gain was.  The input power was 2
> million watts.
>
> A strap around the fence got loose and the voltage crystalized the sand
> into
> glass looking lumps.
>
> Dave
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