- 1. [TowerTalk] Saltwater Ground Connection (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Giacobello, K2XX" <k2xx@swva.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 15:40:58 -0500
- I'll be vacationing on a saltwater beach and will have a chance to to set up a portable vertical antenna. Operation will probably be on 40, 30 and 20M. I have a vague recollection of reading of other
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-01/msg00412.html (7,390 bytes)
- 2. Re: [TowerTalk] Saltwater Ground Connection (score: 1)
- Author: Grant Saviers <grants2@pacbell.net>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:26:39 -0800
- I used two resonant elevated radials, about 18" above the sand and 5' from high tide at TX5D for 20 ->10. That worked super well. Stay within 1/4WL of the water and it will work. IMO no direct connec
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-01/msg00414.html (8,312 bytes)
- 3. Re: [TowerTalk] Saltwater Ground Connection (score: 1)
- Author: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 14:04:23 -0800
- On 1/27/2014 1:26 PM, Grant Saviers wrote: I used two resonant elevated radials, about 18" above the sand and 5' from high tide at TX5D for 20 ->10. That worked super well. Stay within 1/4WL of the w
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-01/msg00415.html (8,221 bytes)
- 4. Re: [TowerTalk] Saltwater Ground Connection (score: 1)
- Author: <john@kk9a.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:24:22 -0500
- a connection to the water. The real advantage is from the salt water filling out the pseudo-brewster angle. John KK9A I'll be vacationing on a saltwater beach and will have a chance to to set up a p
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-01/msg00416.html (8,021 bytes)
- 5. Re: [TowerTalk] Saltwater Ground Connection (score: 1)
- Author: "Edward Sawyer" <SawyerEd@Earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 06:01:00 -0500
- What I have used and would recommend: At least 4 radials. At least one over the water at high tide. If the one over the salt water needs to be short of ¼ wave, so be it, if the others are ¼ wave. If
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-01/msg00420.html (7,843 bytes)
- 6. Re: [TowerTalk] Saltwater Ground Connection (score: 1)
- Author: "Mike Ryan" <mryan001@tampabay.rr.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:44:18 -0500
- Joe, A couple of years ago the local club here asked got some of the guys to participate in some kind of a Lighthouse Contest over a weekend...a few summers back. The reason I recall it was summer I
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-01/msg00421.html (10,575 bytes)
- 7. Re: [TowerTalk] Saltwater Ground Connection (score: 1)
- Author: Kris Mraz <n5kilomike@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 19:50:44 -0600
- I had a similar experience. I operated the IOTA contest a few years back from Galveston Island, TX. I picked a spot on the beach with a clear shot to Europe over saltwater. The antenna was a DX-88 ve
- /archives//html/Towertalk/2014-01/msg00429.html (11,933 bytes)
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