Check out the on air performance of KH6TE using an end-fed Zepp Par antenna
on a Kanga Pole 20' from the waters edge on Kailua, Beach (windward
Oahu)...they put out a 59+20 signal here into XE1.They have been on air
(14200 almost every night this week.
WH6H/XE1
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Jack Brindle <jackbrindle@earthlink.net>wrote:
> My apologies for that last email. While it was true, I hit the wrong
> button and it was NOT supposed to be sent.
>
> Jack Brindle, W6FB
>
> On Oct 13, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> > In addition to Towertalk, I am aware of two antenna lists:
> >
> > antennaware@contesting.com
> > antennas@mailman.qth.net
> >
> > I don't have any quantitative data, but suspect that at such a
> > distance you would definitely see a difference from the effects of
> > salt water vs. a normal earth ground. Maybe I am just lucky, but the
> > performance of my roof-mounted AV-640 vertical, which is ~200 ft from
> > salt water (depending on the tide) greatly exceeds my expectations.
> >
> > Bob, N7XY
> >
> > On Oct 13, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Charlie Gallo wrote:
> >
> >> Not sure if there is an antenna list, but...
> >>
> >> Any idea how close to salt water a vertical dipole array has to be
> >> to work well? 15-20 ft to the side and 5 ft up close enough?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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