W6AM open feedlines 600 ohm
- skylarkcolo
- Mar 4, 2019
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 21
Now that was a bunch of open wire feeder lines!!
The W6AM station, was legendary around the world.
K0UO Rhombic antennas are using some of W6AM's insulators and components, used first on the main East-West/ DC or LA Rhombic in 2012. So W6AM is Still In the AIR and ON the AIR daily. The book and the links below, show and outline W6AM Don Wallace's Ranch in detail, but you can't talk Rhombic, without including Don, so I put this short page together.
During the last couple decades of the W6AM rhombic ranch, it was 'only' 9 rhombics and 18 directions on 24 acres, 1234 ft above the Los Angeles Basin, right on the edge of the Pacific. During its heyday, Don's property was 120 acres with 13 rhombics and 26 directions. The site was originally a trans-Pacific radio site (Press Wireless, I think) and Don somehow "acquired" the property from the billionaire Howard Hughes (Press Wireless). Height of the rhombics varied from 100 to 140 ft. In the late 60's or so, Don had to sell 95 of the acres (to pay the property taxes) and he collected the grand sum of $100K for the 95 acres. Today, the property is covered with hundreds of million dollar (plus) homes.
ABOVE: W6AM A GREAT READ
He has a lot of photos of W6AM on his page, https://www.qsl.net/ne6i/w6am/
Read The W6AM Book
MUST SEE, Don Wallace W6AM 1984
SALE, of THE RANCH
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