[TowerTalk] Method of burying radials-Thanks!

Scott Bullock twoway@scoden.ma.ultranet.com
Thu, 28 May 1998 05:32:17 -0400


If you don't want the 40-2CD, then throw it back in the box, and you can
donate it to me. I'll put it up at 50' and have a ball. :)

73,
Scott
KA1CLX



At 0010:0022 PM 5/27/0098 -0500, you wrote:
>My sincere thanks to the many hams who sent me suggestions on burying my
>radials. I considered them all, and finally went with mowing 4 low
>strips and pinning the copper to the ground. I'm watering it heavily and
>the grass is already beginning to hide them. The mower cuts over the
>nicely, and soon they wont even be visible. The radials are under a U.S.
>Tower 55' crankup with heavy 15' mast.
>I use the new X9 Beam and I love it! I use it on 5 bands. I use a
>Half-sloper on 80m, and I have a 40-2cd in the basement I never
>finished, because, frankly the thing needs to be up at about 140' to
>have any real gain.
>
>                                                        Thanks again,
>Tom W0HH
>
>BY the way, I always thought that the Earth was flat!
>
>
>
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