Moving Radios and the Old "1690/1700 kHz Part 15" site

A funny way to say it, but we

have had to move "right away" for

more than 2 years.

Several times we did stuff to get ready,

and then had to stay here.

No it's not a real broadcast site, but it

had an interesting look.

I've told a lot of stories about the station

(MICRO1690/1700 - - Dog Radio Studios)

- - it was a good experiment and there were

some listeners.

But when I go out to the backyard and look at

it - - I realize I never have said anything about

the area where the radio waves came and went.

There was a 150 foot wire for a crystal set I had

here.  That went from the house way back to

some trees.  A tuned 80 meter and tuned 40 meter

wire for ham radio transmitting was also there. 

And in the middle of all of this was the MICRO1690/1700

"slightly less than 3 meter stick" mounted on the ground

in the middle of it all.  Wires ran out to the transmitter

for audio, power, and a control to switch from 1690 to 1700

at sunset and back to 1690 at sunrise.

One thing I never mentioned - besides the 16 radial ground

system - was that I had a tophat.  In order to keep it secure,

there was a plastic pole on top of the 3 meter copper pole.

This went up another 10 feet, and had thin string to keep the

tophat in place.  So even though the radiator was 3 meters,

there was a supporting plastic pole on top that made the

whole thing look bigger.  Somebody said all of the supporting

"strings/wires" made it look like a sailboat without a sail.  It

 was 20 feet tall, but again - that last 10 feet was plastic and

didn't radiate. 

So there were all of these strings and wires all over the place,

it seemed. 

Now there is nothing there but the ground radials. 

I have packed up a lot of electronic stuff which has

gone into storage somewhere else. 

Today I lost my Tecsun PL-380.  I know it's around

here somewhere.  I don't want to lose it.  It's great

on AM and SW - but FM is really good too. 

I have tried to put some kind of identifying name of

what is left here for several years after 1690/1700

DOGRADIO went off. 

I have tried names of old radios, names of dogs,

3 letter callsigns, 4 letter callsigns, names of

transmitting and receiving tubes, and studios,

and all sorts

of things.  The CB and ham calls (plus a commercial

business transmitter I had here once) haven't been enough

either.  I had an SWL listening post too - with a name -

and that isn't any good either. 

We have been here 23 years.  And of course so much much much

more has happened here besides the radio thing. 

But anyhow  -  to represent the fun radio thing that

was here and is now basically gone - I have never been

able to come up with anything that fits.   

For the most part, all that sounds right is my name.

Which is

Bruce