Eddie:
Gopher it! Put the chicken wire in and bond it together. If you can
find something other than aluminum screen, you can solder the joints every
few feet (doesn't have to be a continuous connection.) If you have to use
aluminum, I think you might be able to connect the overlapping sections
together by using two stainless steel fender washers, and a stainless steel
bolt and nut at each joint. Squirt NoAlox or other similar compound
between the washers before you tighten down on the nut.
I recently read an article by W5UDV and NZ5A about using this kind of
ground screen for a 30M phased array in QST of June 1994. (I have a lot of
catch-up reading to do.) BTW - this is the same issue that has N4KG's
article on loaded-tower, elevated-feed ground-plane antenna for lowbands.
73 de
Gene Smar AD3F
P.S. Wish MY wife would tell me to improve my antenna like that!
-----Original Message-----
From: Eddy Avila <k6sdw@hotmail.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com <towertalk@contesting.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Date: Saturday, February 16, 2002 3:33 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] Vertical and ground-radial question?
>
>This for the antenna prognosticators......
>
>I have up in my backyard a ground-mounted Butternut hf2v 80/40 vertical
with
>24 buried radials of various lengths, none of which are of the "optimum"
>lenght, unfortunately. But it works fairly well beating my dipole most of
>the time. (Yes, I know, the dipole at 20' off the ground....well, sucks!!)
>
>Anyways, my questions is: the wife wants me to cover the entire area above
>the ground radials with chicken wire so the gophers and moles will bump
into
>the chicken wire instead of digging up to the surface, so should I bond all
>the chicken wire together and bond it to the ground-radial system??? Will
>this help my signal any? Or may be making things worse?
>
>Oh, no choice installing the chicken wire...this is a compromise to her
>first wish: pulling the vertical out of the backyard....U G H!
>
>Thanks mucho!
>
>73.......ed
>
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