Topband: RX ant-Frozen ground

[Roger Parsons]

Hi Steve

I am fairly confident that Sudbury counts as a cold place...

I have found Beverages to be very insensitive indeed to their locale and operating conditions. (I have a total of 15, mostly phased.) I now use 4 x 50' radials at each end, but have previously used 3 x 25'. I do not believe there is any difference, but of course I can't directly compare one condition with the other in real time. I do not generally use ground rods because there is rock a few inches down in most places - where I do the ground rod is buried horizontally.

The ground freezes here to at least 4' down, but the performance does not seem to vary from now (when it's hardly frozen) to February (when it's very frozen). Some parts of some Beverages have been completely covered in snow at times and keep on a-truckin.

I have been much less succesful with vertical arrays, but that lack of success has not been weather related - I suspect it is plain old fashioned finger trouble.

FWIW

73 Roger
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