Tie everything and any thing you can to ground or ground side of the
antenna. this will reduce noise. Especially on top bands. Lighting is a
hazard. Best is to disconnect radio from antenna and ground so you do not
get lighting feed back into the shack.
On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:18 AM, denton <denton@oregontrail.net> wrote:
> Probably the swimming pool uses salt for conditioning.
> I just returned from The Villages visiting family, and their pool uses
> salt instead of chlorine. They have a bird cage as per regulations.
> I also was informed that a lot of houses have extensive lightning rods
> protection on the roofs...I could see the little spikes and grounding
> system on the rooftops
>
> ------------------------------**--------------------
> From: "Stuart Rohre" <rohre@arlut.utexas.edu>
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2012 3:54 PM
> To: <tentec@contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] Dipole Over Pool Enclosure
>
>
> The modeling over a metal pool structure would involve interpreting the
>> effect of the fresh water pool on the antenna ground conditions, and also
>> the ground effect of the metal structure. The analogy could be made to
>> modeling a mobile whip over a car structure. This has been done and was
>> written up some years back in "Communications Quarterly" or "QEX". I
>> believe by a VE ham who worked for Canada's Propagation Laboratory. A
>> segmented outline of the car shape was used in the calculation of fields,
>> much as you use segments of the antenna in NEC Antenna modeling.
>>
>> -Stuart Rohre
>> K5KVH
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