You didn't misread. However, those who believe that continuous
guys can significently affect the pattern insist that the
study didn't take enough
permutations into account and is hterefore valid only for the
specific configurations used. So those who believe and those
who (like myself) think it's a mole hill blown into a mountain will
continue to denigrate one another.
I guess that's what makes the hobby so interesting!
73,
Bob AA0CY
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From: Chuck Sudds[SMTP:csudds@probe.net]
Sent: Saturday, May 30, 1998 5:16 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Phillystran and Lightning
At 09:45 AM 5/30/98 -0700, Kurt wrote:
>A tower in concrete, connected to a ground system, has lower inductance
>than any of the other paths on the tower. Continuous grounded guys make it
>better for the lightning but not so good for the antenna patterns.
>73, Kurt
Just *how* badly does continuously grounded guys mess up the antenna
patterns on 20-15-10 meters?? I seem to recall an article in QST or some
other publication about 10 years back that stated that most installations
will suffer only marginal degradation... on the order of 1/4 db or so. Did I
misread this or have there been more recent studies?
Chuck Sudds K0TVD
Missouri Valley, Iowa USA
http://www.probe.net/~beakers/
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