[OKDXA] N8S on 160m

[Jerry Chouinard]

The new email address - ac5up at windstream.net is a nice fit!
Good to hear you pipe in now and then.

K5YAA

At 04:44 PM 4/6/2007 -0500, you wrote:
>Coy Day wrote:
>>Never heard of anyone running radials into a pond.  Who knows, it may work.
>>
>Many moon ago WBZ in Boston on 1030 kHz had one of the strongest signals 
>on the east coast. The antenna farm was located in a salt marsh. 
>Maintenance issue, yes, engineering challenge, yes, (at least a pond 
>doesn't have high and low tides) but RF wise? It worked like a hose... 
>Reception reports out of Europe were not uncommon and in Philadelphia it 
>played like a local after dark. I think they acquiesced to the gods of 
>corrosion in the 70's and moved the stick inland. The budget for hip-boot 
>waders alone was heuuuuge and sacrificial anodes tend to be short-lived in 
>a 50 gallon environment...
>
>BTW: In case anyone cares, I will be changing e-mail addresses from 
>ac5up at vei.net to ac5up at windstream.net in a week or so. Need to set it up 
>this weekend...
>
>
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