[Towertalk] Fence fence go away-

[Phil - KB9CRY]

As I've stated before, What does Jim Miller of Comtek Systems say? 
 Contact him; he and I discussed my near-in fence prior to me 
constructing my 4 sq last year.  I just grounded it in a few places and 
made sure that it was contiguous (is that the right word?) along its 
length.  Works like a champ.  Phil  KB9CRY  

Of course the fence is interacting with the array.  I'd think you'd have 
to make it invisible by detuning it like you'd detune a resonant tower 
that is close by.

Dinsterdog@aol.com wrote:

>Ok,
>
>As a follow up on my 4 SR problems since installing a 3000 foot 4 foot high goat wire fence within 60 feet on the west side of it, I have a question on making the fence disappear.  Moving it will be tough, but if I ground it, will it go away as far as the array is concerned?  To RF ground it as far as the array is concerned,  I was thinking of attaching 66 foot redials to the bottom of the fence, which is made up of 12 gauge woven wire, and running them out away from the array.  Has anyone ever attempted to RF ground a fence of this length?  Does the radial idea make sense?  The array is acting wacko and everything else that could cause problems has been eliminated.  Symptoms of the arrays problems include a raised resonant point from it's standard 200KHz to 400KHz, varying power port dump readings from 1% to up to 20% at resonance, and the individual resonant points of the two closest verticals, which parallel the array on the west side, dropping from 3.620MHz to 3.577 and !
>3.543 respectively.  The two furthest verticals have not been directly effected as far as resonant and SWR readings. The vertical closest to the fence (66 feet) has the lower SWR and the other vertical which parallels the fence on the west side (75 feet from fence) is the other that dropped.   And oh yeah, the F/B sucks- Rather than moving 600 feet of fence, can anyone suggest a creative solution?  Much appreciated-
>
>73  Paul  N0AH
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