Now that I think about it a bit -- I wonder if you put up a small vertical off
to the side toward the W3LPL RBN and fed some power into it
as a reference signal then fed the tower with that little vertical open and fix
up switching so you could switch between the two several
times for each reading and get a repeatable delta - then add radials and look
at the new deltas if this trial worked out ??
Closest RBN I have on160 is KO7SS down on Mt Lemon in Tuscon (107 miles) and I
have never been able to tell anything because of qsb over such short periods of
time - takes me about 5 min to change the two configurations I want to compare.
Hank K7HP
----- On Sep 13, 2019, at 6:31 AM, N4ZR <n4zr@comcast.net> wrote:
| I don't think I've ever read anything on this topic. Basically, what
| I'm asking is, could ground wave to a fairly nearby Skimmer be used as
| an analogue to low-angle radiation to assess the effectiveness of radial
| systems on an inverted L? W3LPL is about 30 miles from me and has a
| very capable Skimmer Server-based RBN node.
| --
| 73, Pete N4ZR
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