Can Towertalkers explain why antennas over salt water is such an
improvement?
It seems to me that if all of the RF directed downward is reflected upward,
by the salt water, that is only a 3db improvement in the RF being directed
upward!
What else is happening?
k7puc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Logan Dietz" <cdietz@swbell.net>
To: <K3BU@aol.com>
Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Radials over salt water?
> 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?
>
>
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