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Re: [TowerTalk] Saltwater Ground Connection

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Saltwater Ground Connection
From: "Edward Sawyer" <SawyerEd@Earthlink.net>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 06:01:00 -0500
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What I have used and would recommend:

 

At least 4 radials.  At least one over the water at high tide.  If the one
over the salt water needs to be short of ¼ wave, so be it, if the others are
¼ wave.

 

If you care about the signals in directions not favored directly (within 1
wavelength) of the sea, then lay down more radials in those directions.  If
you don?t, then just leave it at 4.

 

I have also used a vertical dipole wth the stake literally in the water (a
Force 12 10 ? 40) with excellent results and no radials at all.

 

73

 

Ed  N1UR

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