Hi,
To reiterate what I posted a short time ago, I have a beautiful
location for transmitting, salt water tributaries within 100' of my
radials and a salt marsh for 40 of the 60 radials, the others are in
the scrub beside the marsh & I'm using an Inv-L with the wire 50'
high at best. I've been told I have a most powerful signal by enough
DX stations, I believe them. I like turning the K3 down to 3W & see
what I can catch. Being next door to the ocean is a transmitting
bonanza.
My receiving antennas are the black hole though except the K9AY which
does work as it should but isn't a gain antenna. It is the same salt
water that gives me such a great signal that takes away from my
receive.
I have been offered some suggestions to what might likely be better
for Rx which I'm reading on, I just wanted to put my positive 2 cents
in in favor of saltwater & transmitting...
Gary
KA1J
> Hi All,
> Just to reflect what has happened in the past, N6BT did a DXPD to 6Y. He
> had verticals on the beach. As understand it his radials were sloped toward
> the water so they terminated maybe 100 feet from the shore. That made sense
> to me because seawater is lousy for conduction currents but great for
> electromagnetic wave propagation. In other words, let the antennas and
> radials do the radiation and let the saltwater do the propagation. I heard
> 6Y2J I think it was about 1½ hours before sundown here in AZ. It was
> amazing. I don't know what his ground was.
> 73 Hardy N7RT
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <k3bu@optimum.net>
> To: "Hugh Valentine" <hsvdds@juno.com>
> Cc: <Topband@Contesting.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 7:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Topband: Magic Antenna Land
>
>
> Howdy Oval,you are one lucky SOB! Being close to salt water, ideally if on
> the beeeech, your best and least complicated solution is just to run two
> elevated radials (see Team Vertical exploits). That completes the efficient
> antenna standing wave resonant system, which then uses "perfect" ground to
> enhance the vertical's performance especially at low angles. Increased gain,
> lower angle.Another solution is to run piece of "ground wire" to the salt
> water, only wire in contact with water surface is effective, no need to go
> deep. Then you are on the mercy of tide "tuning" your antenna.The salt water
> is the prime beneficiatitor to the antenna performance, adding 3cxxxxx will
> help to create the propagation and boil the salty water and produce some sea
> salt which is effectively used instead of toothpaste.HIH, 73 Yuri da 3BUm>
> Oval gets pretty good results but is wondering what effect his > ground rod
> in Salt water is having on his antenna performance. > Oval disconnects the
> Ground rod and runs on Radials only. He is > wunderin....did I improve or
> degrade my signal???....and he > wonders if he could measure current flow in
> the 1/4" ground bus > to the ground rod...would it show any current flow and
> how would > that compare to the current flow in the radials....???? Will >
> his SWR change?> > Do we have any antenna theorists who could help Oval in
> his query?> > 73> Val> N4RJ>
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