[CW] Fwd: [SSN] SAQ Reception

[Darrel Emerson]

I found a nice and concise summary of the SAQ station at:
http://archive.nsarc.ca/hf/saq.pdf .

This includes the following description of the receiving station once in 
use at SAQ, no longer existing.


When I visited Grimeton, years ago, they had a map there of the route of 
the Beverage antenna - going across roads and rivers and under bridges.

Cheers,
            Darrel, aa7fv.

On 7/5/2020 3:09 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Dr. Harold H. Beverage, W2BML installed a 23 mile long "Traveling Wave
> Antenna" first at Rocky Nook, Long Island for American Marconi (later
> RCA) and also at KPH
> As Darrell Emerson correctly stated, it ran under bridges to get that
> long.  In 1920s it was difficult to buy that amount of real estate
> even for American Marconi and RCA!
>
> Dr. Harry always said that his "Wave Antennas" could be noisy, but it
> was the signal to noise that improved.
>
> He had put a 23 mile version in the 1920s for Radio Central so they
> could receive Europe. Those antennas still work well
> on MF, but of course, I don't think any civilian group has HH Beverage
> Wave Antennas miles long, even the Arctic and Antarctic stations have
> abandoned them as they were of critical use during Sudden Ionospheric
> Disturbances (SIDs.).
>
> I attach a QST article by Dr. Beverage originally from 1922.
>
> I tried a shortened Beverage antenna and I also tried using insulated
> wire run under salt water in a salt marsh with excellent results.
>
> 73
>
> DR
>
> DR
>
>

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