Re: Inverted-L (was OT: Vertical antenna)

Posted by David Gilbert on Dec 21, 2010; 6:36am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Inverted-L-was-OT-Vertical-antenna-tp5852957p5854855.html


It's that ugly green stringy stuff some people use to hide their
beautiful brown dirt so that nobody tries to steal it.

Dave, AB7E

QTH not far from N7WS



On 12/20/2010 10:37 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:

> I just have one question: What is grass?
>
> --- On Mon, 12/20/10, Guy Olinger K2AV<[hidden email]>  wrote:
>
>> Many people are adopting a construction technique as
>> primary over
>> performance considerations, e.g. lay out wire and hold them
>> down with
>> lawn staples and let the grass grow up around them, holding
>> them in
>> suspension OVER the dirt, rather than notching them DOWN
>> INTO the
>> dirt. Grass supported bare wire radials will exhibit tuned
>> characteristics and a higher velocity factor than buried
>> bare radials.

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