[Amps] Salt water load

[Jim Thomson]

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:07:44 -0700
From: "Bill, W6WRT" <dezrat1242 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] Salt water load

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:38:06 -0500, "Danny Pease" <dpease at adams.net>
wrote:

>
>A shielded load it is not, probably pretty easy to work quite a few stations
>with it. Maybe a short stealth antenna design is possible with it? Use some
>2 inch PCV and caps for a container and several feet of wire and make a
>broadband dipole. ;-)

REPLY:

Reminds me of the April article in QST many years ago. The fellow dug
a trench, filled it water and used for a reflector, I believe it was. 

73, Bill W6WRT

## The joke's on you Bill.  The salt water loads actually work.  I just
built one using a glass container.   Dead flat on the mfj on 10m. 

##  I will try another one.. in a metal container, which just a single
probe, dead center, sticking straight down into the salt water... but
not touching the bottom.  

## If the guy had used salt water in the trench, it might just have worked ! 
No trench, how about a pvc pipe full of salt water ..and end caps ?  

Jim    VE7RF