At 02:16 PM 1/8/01 -0600, Logan Dietz wrote:
>I used to have a station on a 1 ac point of land in salt water. I shunt fed a
>130 foot tower with some beams on it. I took the radials to the salt
water and
>terminated them to old aluminum from destroyed beams which I pushed down into
>the salt water. About 16 radials worked unbelievably well on 160! I also
tried
>a ground plane for 80 on a 40 foot tower, with two radials...that also worked
>very well. Almost anything will work well on 160 if it is near salt water.
>
>Chuck, W5PR
>
>K3BU@aol.com wrote:
>
>> Talking about radials.
>> Has anyone done some real life tests and comparison between few radials
>> (2,4,8) and many (60, 120) when over salt water or marsh (or soaked salty
>> beach)?
>> The point of question is: does the salt water ground (close to perfect)
>> reduce the losses in return currents to the point where few radials are
>> sufficient?
That certainly was the conclusion at 6Y2A et seq. If I remember correctly,
they used only one or two radials over sea beach, largely to even out tidal
variations in feedpoint behavior, but the low-angle performance is
phenomenal.
73, Pete N4ZR
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