Topband: Fwd: Re: BOGs, Snakes and snowpack

[K1FZ-Bruce]

I can believe this. If you think of earth as also capacitance to the 
wire,  the optimum  frequency would go much lower. 

Using radial wire grounds instead of deep ground rods, become part of 
the problem. 

A BOG antenna  is much less forgiving than an above ground Beverage, 
but  can be a very useful antenna 

73
Bruce-K1FZ
www.qsl.net/k1fz/bogantennanotes/index.html

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:15:36 -0000, Tracey Gardner 
<tracey.gardner at talktalk.net> wrote:

> With regards to signal levels from BOGs, my experience doesn't relate 
> directly to 160m, but to the NDB band approx 300-600kHz. 
>
> When I dropped my wire from about 6ft off the hedge onto the ground, 
> for hedge cutting, the signals dropped by 9db over the NDB band. 
>
> 73s Tracey G5VU
>
>

 

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