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Kevin Alfred Strom wrote:
On 12/24/2011 12:14 PM, Mark Zenier wrote:
[...]
Funny that they picked the second harmonic of the old KXA. To properly
resurrect the old KXA, they would be running dreary classical music.
And running a dipole on the roof of a local department store. (The
last medium wave wire antenna in the country, I think.)
[...]


Interesting on the 'last wire antenna' -- anywhere I get more info
on that, or pictures?

That may have been hearsay from one of the former staffers, (probably
in a Seattle Times article).

After a half an hour of searching, I still haven't found a good picture,
just a lot of local radio people discussing it on various fora. Perhaps
some combination of the search terms "KXA", "Rhodes Department Store",
"Roof", "Seattle", etc. might find something.

It was a folded dipole, running East/West about 30-50 feet above the
roof with self supporting truss towers supporting each end. It was
a short block in length. (I think that's still less than a half wave).
As I remember, the feed was balanced open wire. Most of the surrounding
buildings were shorter, but you could clearly see it from the taller ones
further up the hill.

Mark Zenier
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