[BC] Grounding by the sea

[Milton Holladay]

That's more like it !    ( Geography: John's Island is at Charleston, 
where the Ashley and Cooper Rivers merge to form the Atlantic Ocean 
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M

On 2/13/2012 21:55: VIRUS ALERT!, Kevin Raper wrote:
> 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
>
>

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