[TowerTalk] Titanix V160e Failure

[Tom Rauch]

> with the top guy at the 50 foot level. I wonder if I could
improve the
> signal from this antenna by substituting
> 4 20-25 foot lengths of wire attached to the antenna at
the top guy points
> with guy rope the rest of the way to the guy
> anchors? The ground system is two elevated radials running
from the end of
> the pier to the land (over salt
> water). The angle of the radials is 120 degrees (rather
than 180 degrees).


Hi Steve,

The effect would be multiplying radiation resistance
something less than four times.

If the ground losses are very low any change would have
minimal effect on signal. If the ground losses were very
high it could make an improvement some amount less than 5 or
6dB.

The saltwater would certainly reduce ground loss. There
isn't any actual measured data available for small ground
systems, so I have no idea what the ground loss would be. We
only have models, and ground losses are the least accurate
thing to model. We'd have to know ground loss resistance to
make an educated guess.

73 Tom