As I've stated before, What does Jim Miller of Comtek Systems say?
Contact him; he and I discussed my near-in fence prior to me
constructing my 4 sq last year. I just grounded it in a few places and
made sure that it was contiguous (is that the right word?) along its
length. Works like a champ. Phil KB9CRY
Of course the fence is interacting with the array. I'd think you'd have
to make it invisible by detuning it like you'd detune a resonant tower
that is close by.
Dinsterdog@aol.com wrote:
>Ok,
>
>As a follow up on my 4 SR problems since installing a 3000 foot 4 foot high
>goat wire fence within 60 feet on the west side of it, I have a question on
>making the fence disappear. Moving it will be tough, but if I ground it, will
>it go away as far as the array is concerned? To RF ground it as far as the
>array is concerned, I was thinking of attaching 66 foot redials to the bottom
>of the fence, which is made up of 12 gauge woven wire, and running them out
>away from the array. Has anyone ever attempted to RF ground a fence of this
>length? Does the radial idea make sense? The array is acting wacko and
>everything else that could cause problems has been eliminated. Symptoms of
>the arrays problems include a raised resonant point from it's standard 200KHz
>to 400KHz, varying power port dump readings from 1% to up to 20% at resonance,
>and the individual resonant points of the two closest verticals, which
>parallel the array on the west side, dropping from 3.620MHz to 3.577 and !
>3.543 respectively. The two furthest verticals have not been directly
>effected as far as resonant and SWR readings. The vertical closest to the
>fence (66 feet) has the lower SWR and the other vertical which parallels the
>fence on the west side (75 feet from fence) is the other that dropped. And
>oh yeah, the F/B sucks- Rather than moving 600 feet of fence, can anyone
>suggest a creative solution? Much appreciated-
>
>73 Paul N0AH
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