[BC] Stooopid Engineering Wins

[DANA PUOPOLO]

WLLH, Lawrence, MA has a slant wire connecting to the 70 foot roof mounted
monopole.  Antenna resistance was about 70 ohms. This antenna gets out better
the series fed tower in Lowell by the river!

-D



------ Original Message ------
Received: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:27:00 AM PST
From: "Kent Winrich, K9EZ" <kwinrich at gmail.com>
To: "Broadcasters' Mailing List" <broadcast at radiolists.net>
Subject: Re: [BC] Stooopid Engineering Wins

Phil Alexander wrote:

>On 19 Jan 2006 at 19:09, Kent Winrich, K9EZ wrote:
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>>Our Ford Freestyle has one of the Volvo Constant Velocity 
>>transmissions.  It is weird to have the engine stay at one RPM yet the 
>>vehicle accelerates.
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>Gee, after 50 years, somebody finally got around to doing it.
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>>Back to radio...
>>Now  if I could only feed my NINE towers (One station) with slant 
>>feeds.......
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>Some day when I have time it would be interesting to model 
>an array using slantwire feeds. With the tools we have now, 
>it might be possible for some of the simpler patterns with
>shallow minima.
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>I do love them when I find one of the old daytime slants 
>built ca. 1950. Those towers are guaranteed to take IBOC 
>without system mods. Western Electric had a system that 
>was simply elegant but Gen. Sarnoff couldn't make money 
>unless he sold the FCC and the industry on a "better" idea.
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>
>Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD
>Broadcast Engineering Services and Technology 
>(a Div. of Advanced Parts Corporation) 
>Ph. (317) 335-2065   FAX (317) 335-9037
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There is a slant feed in Janesville Wisconsin!  WCLO 1240.  I have a pic 
of it somewhere.....


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