[BC] Long Wire

[Steve Lewis]

I'm confused... You have a working tower set up already. No, it might not be
perfect but no matter what is wrong with it, it apparently radiates well
enough for you to cover Gallatin with 250 watts.  You operate at 1 kilowatt
now, giving you 6 db of headroom to cover the city nicely and still have a 6
db advantage over the man-noise today and into the future.

You run the station frugally it would seem.  Your coverage is more than
adequate.  Unless something is broken now, why in the world would you spend
the money to have somebody from Kintronics come down and try to sell you
something you probably don't need.

If a storm takes it out one day, worry about it then.  If you really need to
worry about something, worry about your sat music service going away, or
where the terrorists will strike next. 

-----Original Message-----

 From: Scott Bailey

I've read that paper 101 times. It's all true, but my tower is so fat at the
bottom, and with the wires out there so far, I've got great bandwidth! My
concern is that the wires may be too heavy and a pro from Kintronics needs
to ride to Gallatin to take a look at my unipole.

If it is recommended that I put up a new unipole, it will come from
Kintronics. I trust them in a since of insurance that it won't fall apart
during a windy thunderstorm of 60 mph winds. That is my only fear now. 

I did not like the way the engineer left it with small springs from home
depot, but they are holding up so far.

--
Scott Bailey
WMRO Radio, Gallatin, TN
  
> Ron proved the performance of the 90 deg configuration
> in the work done with Kintroic Labs, presented at the
> 1996 NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference.
> <http://www.kintronic.com/resources/technicalPapers/11.pdf>
> 
> Phil Alexander, CSRE, AMD