In a message dated 98-05-30 20:17:13 EDT, csudds@probe.net writes:
<< 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? >>
That was an article by well-known station builder Lew Gordon, K4VX. In
it, he said that they actually helped his sloper performance.
Cheers, Steve K7LXC
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