Topband: Relationship Between Ground Wave and Low-Angle Radiation

[Michael Tope]

On 9/13/2019 6:31 AM, N4ZR wrote:
> I don't think I've ever read anything on this topic.  Basically, what 
> I'm asking is, could ground wave to a fairly nearby Skimmer be used as 
> an analogue to low-angle radiation to assess the effectiveness of 
> radial systems on an inverted L?  W3LPL is about 30 miles from me and 
> has a very capable Skimmer Server-based RBN node.
>
Hi Pete

Perhaps you could try some RBN tests without changing anything 
significant on either end of the system over a period of time just to 
see if you can get a stable baseline. A transmit beacon on a timer that 
lets it transmit from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM every day for a month would 
give you a pretty sizeable dataset. Then you could pull down the RBN 
records to see how much variability there was in signal strength over a 
large set of measurements.

73, Mike W4EF..............................