A small correction. Delano, Dixon and further east Bethany were not VOA sites. They were originally private broadcaster’s sites. I can’t remember which was what but Bethany and Delano were CBS and NBC. Bethany was Crosley. Eventually VOA took these sites over as commercial broadcasters found little value in shortwave. Greenville was the only true VOA site on US soil.
The engineers who kept these sites going were heros as many of those transmitters became antiques and in some cases had to fabricate parts. That is the unfortunate legacy of US shortwave broadcast. b Sent from my iPad >> On Sep 13, 2019, at 8:48 PM, Jim Brown <j...@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote: >> >> On 9/13/2019 4:18 PM, donov...@starpower.net wrote: >> To compound the design compromises, the r hombic termination >> resistor throws away nearly 3 dB of whatever gain it might achieve. > > When our senior EE class toured Crosley's Mason, OH VOA site in 1964, the > engineers were quite proud of their modification to the design that fed the > termination power back into the feedpoint. All that remains of that > spectacular station is the transmitter building. When we toured it, there > were >25 rhombics and two Sterba Curtains. 10-15 years ago, my son worked as > the manager for a restaurant/bar on the land where the antenna farm used to > be. Several years ago, I drove by the VOA station at Delano, CA, about 45 > miles S of Visalia. At least some of the antenna farm was still there, but > inquiry told me that the transmitters were "somewhere in South America." At > the time, I had hopes of arranging a tour for Visalia DX Convention attendees. > > There are still some shore stations along the Pacific coast with rhombics. > The KPH TX and RX stations are 30-40 miles apart. There's another RX station > along Rte 1 S of Half Moon Bay, with an associated TX station around Palo > Alto. > > 73, Jim K9YC > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to w...@w2xj.net ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
