From my days in the RN as a Radio Operator, I seem to remember that the long wire strung aerials were for low frequency reception. Usually it was the higher the frequency the smaller the aerial.
With a low frequency and a stong enough transmitter there would be good ground/sea coverage, with higher frequencies you could have skip problems, be almost on top of the transmitter and recieve zip.
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And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --
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