[TowerTalk] K3BU salt water

[Craig Clark]

GM Yuri:

I grew up on LI Sound. Water waves have no impact	

Salt Marshes are transitional areas and usually have fresh water mixing 
from  streams. Usually, there is less salt in a marsh for this reason.

My current 160 vertical is installed in a fresh water swamp. Conductivity 
is no different that regular ground. Given my drothers, I'd take a salt 
marsh any day.

BTW, I had swr problems with my vertical at the beach. It was sometimes 
great and other times very bad. It took me a day to figure out that good 
SWR curves came during high tides and bad SWR came during low tide. The 
house was on a big sandbar. :-) I fixed the problem with a longer ground 
rod and more radials.


73 Craig Clark W1JCC

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