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Sail Magazine article on ham antenna?
Old Chief Lynn
Back before Hurricane Hugo blew it all away, the USCG's old 1.9Mhz Loran "A" station on the North end of Folly Beach still had its original 1/4 wave tower on the beach, the building was there but the equipment was gone. It took me about 8 levels of CG bureaucrats, but I finally got permission to go over to the station, with the key, and operate ham radio from this fine example of a 160 meter vertical antenna on the Atlantic Oceanfront for a weekend. We took a bunch of dedicated crew and operated all weekend, logging hundreds of 160M DX from Europe, Africa, Middle East, Japan....stations I didn't think possible on such a low frequency band running so little power as we were limited to. The old antenna served us well but we never got to go back because Hugo came and blew the top of the antenna away. The stub that's left on its solid old mount is a weather station for NOAA, now: http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/images/Stations/fbis1.jpg Under that base is about 36 radials under those salt-water dunes, the perfect ground plane. It was a great weekend of hammin'...(c; 73 DE W4CSC |
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