He keeps making a big deal of having a few hundred volts on his loop. I
remember using an end-fired "long" wire antenna on 160 and 80 meters when I
was 14 years old in the 1950s. The antenna was some 200 feet long. In clear
weather, it usually had a fair amount of voltage on it. I put a VTVM on it
and noted that the voltage would get to a few hundred volts at times,
especially when a storm was a few miles away. During a storm, the voltage
could get over 1000V, if I was foolish enough to measure it. I was!

I could easily get a sufficient voltage to jump a gap. Since my ham
equipment was all vacuum tube, I didn't worry about the voltage. Besides, I
would ground it out with an RF choke except when I wanted to measure the
voltage.

When I was older, I was the CE of a 10 KW-DAD in WI and at night used its
2-tower phased array with 360 ground radials in a peat bog on 160 and 75/80
meters. That antenna easily connected to South America on 75 meters with my
homebrew 4CX1000A final. I could measure a hefty voltage on that antenna
too, so I always shunted it to ground with an RF choke, to keep me from
being zapped when I moved around the spades in the doghouses.

Gary Schnabl


"Jay O' McVeigho" wrote in message
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"Jay O' McVeigho" wrote in message
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: I heard Art Bell is or was building a massive new antenna system for his
: ameteur radio station.Anyone know what it is?Being that he has all that
real
: estate over there in Nevada I'll bet it's a Beverage or something like
that.
:
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Ok it was a double loop.
http://www.ccrane.com/news/whatsinthenews11.19.02.htm