Topband: Lawn staples

[MICHAEL ST ANGELO]

Gene,

My inverted L is at teh edge of my lawn. I have 35 radials in a 200 degress radius in the wooded arear of my yard.

I add 6 more radials in the grassy area of my yard in November when finished with the mowing and remove them in the spring. I measure the impedance before and after. The resistance at resonanc goes down as I add the radials.

I will be interested in your measurements.

Mike N2MS
 
> On 02/22/2022 3:12 PM Gene Smar via Topband <topband at contesting.com> wrote:
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> I retired a couple of years ago and no longer have to launder my white dress shirts.  Therefore, I no longer have a ready supply of wire shirt hangers collecting in my closet.  Therefore, I needed to buy some REAL lawn staples to add more radials to my shunt-fed tower's ground screen.  
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> BTW - the answer to my question yesterday about laying radials and not connecting them to my tower before impedance measurements was answered unanimously (one of one responses) - the wire's presence in the dirt probably won't make a difference.  So I'll add as many radials as I can tolerate installing and measure Z as I connect them, maybe 5 at a time, to the tower's ground ring.  I'll also measure Z before and after I lay down the additional radials, but before I connect any.  Stay tuned.
> 73 deGene Smar  AD3F