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Subject: [TowerTalk] Vertical and ground-radial question?
From: ve7hcb@rac.ca (Chris BONDE)
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:27:56 -0800
I read somewhere that I person in Europe had his landlord put in the 
checken wire to stop the gophers etc.  He used it as a ground system.  So 
it works well.  but I would think that the bonding together somehow would 
be the best way to go.

Chris opr VE7HCB


At 08:06 PM 2002-02-16 +0000, Eddy Avila wrote:

>This for the antenna prognosticators......
>
>I have up in my backyard a ground-mounted Butternut hf2v 80/40 vertical 
>with 24 buried radials of various lengths, none of which are of the 
>"optimum" lenght, unfortunately. But it works fairly well beating my 
>dipole most of the time. (Yes, I know, the dipole at 20' off the 
>ground....well, sucks!!)
>
>Anyways, my questions is: the wife wants me to cover the entire area above 
>the ground radials with chicken wire so the gophers and moles will bump 
>into the chicken wire instead of digging up to the surface, so should I 
>bond all the chicken wire together and bond it to the ground-radial 
>system??? Will this help my signal any? Or may be making things worse?
>
>Oh, no choice installing the chicken wire...this is a compromise to her 
>first wish: pulling the vertical out of the backyard....U G H!
>
>Thanks mucho!
>
>73.......ed
>
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