----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Ziegler" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: LF: Re: Re: Circa 1930s 545 kc in Budapest
Mal,
I have seen some similar type antennas while flying across the USA years
ago
painted RED and WHITE if I remember correctly.
That was in the days when LF and MF were the norm for broadcasting, before
the advent of FM and satellites, although there is still plenty of LF/MF
broadcasting but mainly low power local stations these days, and antenna
masts are more modest structures than they used to be.
Towers are still pained red and white for visibility.
The colour scheme seems sensible but in the UK I have never seen RED and
WHITE masts. They are GREY regardless of height ie Rugby and Droitwich and
others. The old 300 ft radar masts on the South coast were just plain wood
colour.
de mal/g3kev
There has never been any LF broadcasting in the US.
There is a big Blaw-Knox tower in Nashville, Tennessee for station WSM
(650kHz) and a smaller one in Manchester, NH.
The Manchester NH Blaw-Knox tower has been used by hams after hours on
160 meters.
There are just as many high power MW stations and big towers in the US
as before, but now it is common for formerly daytime only stations to
have reduced power at night which creates QRM for MW dxers.
--
73 Warren K2ORS
WD2XGJ
WD2XSH/23
WE2XEB/2
WE2XGR/1
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:21 AM, mal hamilton <[email protected]> wrote:
I have seen some similar type antennas while flying across the USA years
ago
painted RED and WHITE if I remember correctly.
That was in the days when LF and MF were the norm for broadcasting, before
the advent of FM and satellites, although there is still plenty of LF/MF
broadcasting but mainly low power local stations these days, and antenna
masts are more modest structures than they used to be.
de mal/g3kev
----- Original Message ----- From: "Clemens Paul" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 4:03 PM
Subject: LF: Re: Circa 1930s 545 kc in Budapest
How about that?
http://www.waniewski.de/id414.htm
HTH
73
Clemens
DL4RAJ
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dexter McIntyre W4DEX"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 4:29 PM
Subject: LF: Circa 1930s 545 kc in Budapest
I have a 1936 edition of Electrical Engineers Handbook by Pender -
McIlwain
which show a diagram of a 1030 foot antenna in Budapest used on 545 kc.
So far
I have found no history on this antenna. Anyone have any info on this
station
and antenna's history?
Dex
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