They had been silent since March 10, 2015 but were granted on March 9, 2016 STA ( Special Temporary Authority ) to use a temporary site at 25 % power from a long wire antenna.
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This wire is also sometimes used for power transmission, windings for motors or generators, instrumentation, etc . and by a few for making antennas, especially long wire antennas that need extra strength to withstand the tension without stretching excessively.
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The main method employed by most medium-wave or short-wave pirate stations during the 1960s and 70s involved programming played back on cassette recorders ( often powered by a car battery ), with a long wire antenna slung up between two trees.
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Soon they acquired the nickname " Locos de la Azotea " ( " the crazy people from the roof " ), because their hobby involved activities-sometimes bordering on the acrobatic-on top of tall buildings, where they mounted the long wire antennas required by early-type radios.
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And you need an earth connection, < < 2000 ohm, as well I set up a long wire antenna in a park next door to a long wave navigation transmitter ( 2 kW ), using a water pipe as earth and could not get enough for the transitor to amplify.