[BC] Grounding by the sea

[Kevin Raper]

On Feb 13, 2012, at 9:31 PM, Thomas G. Osenkowsky wrote:

>I had a client with a 500 Watt AM on 1600 kHz. The tower was about 20 feet
>from Long Island Sound on two sides. It didn't carry very far, about ten
>miles away it was quite weak.

WLTQ's tower is out in the Salt Water Marsh between John's Island and the Mainland with the 120 Radials about 6" under the Sand and under the Salt Water 24/7.

The Signal ROCKS and we get reception reports from South Florida from it pretty frequently.

WLTQ is 5 KW Non-D in the Daytime.

73,
Kevin Raper
KJ4HYD
CE WCKI WQIZ WLTQ