Great article on the mesh.
Thanks Ian, very much appreciated !
Bob
K6UJ
On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Ian White GM3SEK wrote:
> ROBERT HARMON wrote:
>> You guys have me interested also. I have a small lot only 70 feet by
>> 120 feet. Do you think I would wasting my time with this small of an
>> area for rolling out the ground screen for the low bands ?
>>
>
> Not wasting your time at all. When you are limited to short distances
> from the base of the antenna, a roll of mesh is equivalent to a large
> number of individual radials - with the advantage that you can roll them
> all up in one go.
>
> Rob Sherwood's 'Ham Radio' article is required reading because he
> compared several different layouts for a given amount of mesh. The
> article is on his website, at:
> <http://www.sherweng.com/documents/GroundScreen-sm.pdf>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> 73 from Ian GM3SEK
> http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek
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