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Re: Groundplane antennas (was: Re: Elecraft CW Net Announcement)

Posted by Bill Frantz on Jul 30, 2020; 2:48pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Elecraft-CW-Net-Announcement-tp7663535p7663666.html

On 7/30/20 at 3:43 AM, [hidden email] (Rick M0LEP) wrote:

>I've used three radials for SOTA-type activations, with the vertical
>element supported by a fishing pole, but only on bands from 20 metres
>up, and experience suggests the arrangement works best when set up in
>the open. It certainly doesn't work as well when set up on a wooded
>summit with lots of straight-trunked conifers all around...

Steve Stearns, K6OIK has a article in the latest QST about the
effect of trees on 160M vertical antennas. It reads like it is
the first in a series about the effect of trees on antenna performance.

It also mentions Jim, K9YC who has some direct experience,
living in a coast redwood forest.

73 Bill AE6JV

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