[BC] Long Island, NY Metro PCS Cables Cut

[Milton Holladay]

125 feet sounds about right for a station up around 1500 kHz as a quarter 
wavelength isolation section (some would call it a bazooka.)
Should work fine, especially if the lines are inside the tower, since there 
are usually so many at a cell site.............
M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dana Puopolo" <dpuopolo at usa.net>

>I once saw this in reverse. They ran all the coaxes up the tower and 
>grounded
> each one at the tower base-then insulated them until they all connected to 
> the
> tower about 125 feet up.  Then they insulated the tower base and series 
> fed
> it. In essence, they used the bottom of the tower as a skirt and the lines 
> as
> the tower.
>
> -D
>
> From: Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net>
>
> On Friday 02 December 2011 10:13:07 pm Neal Newman wrote:
>> ohhh did I say they do not believe in using isocoulplers and decided to
> skirt the tower of this hot 300 foot am tower. So they can get online..
> Without isocoulplers.
>
> This would be a proper use of a skirt feed.
> No isocoupler needed.