[Collins] Re: Dixon Site - high power

[Herzog]

I can add to your comments about the Dixon, California site. The area is 
surrounded by onion fields that we passed daily while installing 
transmitters there, in about 1969.
The RF Communications Company, (Now Harris) installed about a dozen AN/FRT 
84 Transmitter site was a  Navy building.  Adjacent to the east was the 
AT&T transmitter site, probably (We didn't see all of either building)  the 
one you are talking about.

      The FRT 84's were 10 KW Pep, 5 Kw avg. transmitters covered 2 to 30 
Mhz, automatically tuned in 10 second maximum.
In both cases the receivers were located 30 miles away.

We had vacuum capacitor problems even at that 10 Kilowatt average power 
level, so I appreciate Jenning's troubles.

The feed lines were high enough so that cows could graze under the 
antennae.  Apparently the RF did not hurt them.
    K2LB, Will