Topband: Beverage Antenna

[Buck wh7dx]

I was just reading about SALT spray in Hawaii and the what it does to the soil..  I never thought about that.  Salt spray and not much rain for me.  Salty volcanic top soil/rock?

Again, thanks for all the emails.    Helped walk it through.   

Going N/E and taking it as far away from Dipoles as 125ft of coax will take me :-)

Cutting 8ft copper grounding rod into 2 or more pieces.   Can't pound them in very far... will need to drill them in as anchors for radials.

Using radial wire (whatever I can get here).. to run some wires out from the copper ground at the feed point (attach one to galvanized fence in the area??) and put MORE on the terminated end.. one or two long ones 100ft?

I'm wondering if I'll see a difference in performance when it rains and washes away the salt spray on the ground?


This was an interesting site...  the Top Band info was really useful.

http://www.chem.hawaii.edu/uham/index.html


This is funny... so Hawaii...
The first problem is to get from the traditional local "relative directions" such as Mauka, to actual compass references, the concepts seldom used in Hawaii such as "north" and "east".

Streets are usually not much help at all, since they seem to delight in going on all sorts of wierd angles. Besides, when North and South King Street run mostly east and west and North King is south of South King Street, it is not surprising that few in Hawaii can actually point north from any given location. In fact, finding any map of Hawaii that contains latitude and longitude lines is a struggle, and many maps of Hawaii seem to have even given up on the tradition of printing maps with north at the top!


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