This setup stll blows my mind when watching this LMAO!!
Hamradio from the 'Big Gun' station. - YouTube
Hamradio from the 'Big Gun' station. - YouTube
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Wild Setup
- Thread starter TonyV225
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I laughed when it said 500 kw Thats some cooking power right there!! LMA!!
that was in reference to the big shortwave stuff. I figure the L4B running at an easy 1000 watts with the 22 dB curtain array is about 160Kw ERP. Nothing to sneeze at for sure.
The best I ever did was at an AM site we decommissioned in the winter of 1986/87. It was a top loaded 96 foot high three inch diameter mast with 120 radials.One hundred watts into that on 80m or 160m yielded more EI and G stations as well as a few DL's than we could shake a stick at. They all reported 59++ signals. We never tried any other bands as we had far too much fun hammering Europe on 160m mainly.Still that was just peanuts compared to the Radio Nederland facility those guys in the video used.
One of my all time favorites as well. Cannot imagine working on that
monster!!!
trucker
just getting the booms up must have been pretty wild, the element are 3800 lb.s flippin crazy.....
to think of the actual ground foot print you would need for that 160/80 setup....that's enough pasture for 10-30 horses depending on how fast it grows