Re: Topband: BOG questions

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Lloyd et all

Isn't a BOG say 3" or 6" high draped over the weeds really now a very 
low beverage and not a BOG at all?
It now needs to be longer and terminated to ground on the far end like 
you would a beverage in order to be effective?
Wish the NEC4 engine wasn't so expensive I am getting the itch to spend 
all night modeling these permutations and combinations
There are two advantages to a BOG as I see it . It is technically very 
easy to install if you can expose bare dirt to lay it on and it is 
shorter than by almost half� for useful F/B.
Dave
NR1DX
manuals@artekmanuals.com



On 8/25/2019 4:15 PM, Lloyd - N9LB wrote:
> Hello Mark!
>
> I did a similar thing a couple of years ago in order to run a BOG 
> across the
> abandoned farm behind my property. Never doing that again!
>
> The following season I set the mower deck to maximum height on my lawn and
> garden tractor and drove thru the same field of six foot high weeds and
> thorns ( and assorted ticks ). That worked a lot better ( and much safer
> too ).
>
> What I learned was that the BOG works well when laying directly on the
> ground, but was worthless when draped over weeds.
>
> GL es 73
>
> Lloyd - N9LB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mark
> Lunday
> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2019 2:48 PM
> To: Mikek <amdx@knology.net>; topband@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: Topband: BOG questions
>
> OK, my wife now is convinced that I have a screw loose in the brain
> somewhere (she had plenty of evidence before but decided to give me the
> benefit of the doubt until today)....I just spent an hour in the hot North
> Carolina sun, wearing jeans and a heavy winter jacket so that I could wade
> through 300 feet of neck-high thorns and nettles and tamp those down so I
> could re-lay the insulated BOG wire.
>
> I do this for three reasons:
>
> 1. I want to confirm the theory that growing grass/weeds around the 
> original
> installation 11 moths ago have compromised performance
>
> 2. A nearby lightning strike Friday night wiped out something in my HiZ
> 4-square receiving array, and I refuse to use the 160 meter inverted L for
> receive, even though this is a quiet QTH.
>
> 3. Even at my age of 55, I find sudden surges of energy when involved with
> such projects.
>
> I shall share my observations as the nights progress, while I
> investigate/diagnose/repair/replace the damaged parts on the HiZ array.
>
> Mark Lunday, WD4ELG
> Greensboro, NC FM06be
> wd4elg@arrl.net
> http://wd4elg.blogspot.com
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