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Re: Topband: FW: Hi-Z Around Trees

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Subject: Re: Topband: FW: Hi-Z Around Trees
From: "Paul Ferguson" <Paul@PaulFerguson.us>
Reply-to: Paul@PaulFerguson.us
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:13:32 -0500
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Lee,

Thanks for the guidance. 

I plan to use 20-foot fiberglass tube with a wire down the center for  
Hi-Z array elements. Would you expect sensitivity to nearby trees to be 
about the same for these wire elements versus aluminum tube elements.

73,
Paul
K5ESW


> 
> 
>   Greetings Top-Banders, I have been away for a couple days, sorry for
>   the late comments.
>     The fact is, for me there is no definitive answer to the effect of
>     trees on the Hi-Z arrays. I have made tests measuring phase shifts
>     and amplitude changes with a variety of objects around these
>     elements. My original thoughts after the tests were that any tree or

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