In a message dated 3/27/2007 2:54:13 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
royanjoy@ncn.net writes:
I wonder if I should elevate the vertical of about 30 inches or if this
snow will not affect the vertical...
Anybody experienced this fact before.. I mean snow at the base of the
vertical....
I have a home brew 65 foot vertical sitting on a telephone insulator at
ground level. I use this antenna on 3 bands 40 thu 160. Top band is a base
loaded
coil. All three bands can be switched remotely by relays. I often get
snowfall that covers up the insulator and up to 10 inches or more of the
tower. I
notice very little if any change in SWR on any of the three bands. When it
does warm up and the snow starts to melt I do shovel the snow away from the
insulator. The only problem I have had with snow is when my loading coil
which I found out was too small. It warmed up enough to melt the blowing snow
and formed a ball of ice around the coil which disabled top band. The coil
was
in a plastic container but the snow still got in and I was only running 100
watts. I remade my coil out of copper tubing and never had any more
problems even with a 500 watt amp. Jim W0NFL of Iowa.
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