[TowerTalk] Chicken Wire Ground Screen

[GALE STEWARD]

I might actually give this idea a try this fall. You could roll out the chicken wire in several directions and tie it into the normal radial system for some increased performance (?) during the winter DX/contest season. Then just roll it back up in the spring. As I recall, ON4UN used to do this some years ago.

73, Stew K3ND

--- On Fri, 6/12/09, Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com> wrote:

> From: Pete Smith <n4zr at contesting.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Chicken Wire Ground Screen
> To: k2xx at swva.net, towertalk at contesting.com
> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 8:33 PM
> Check out www.k3lr.com  for Rob
> Sherwood's paper given during the 
> 2009 Dayton antenna forum.  If I recall correctly, he
> used hardware 
> cloth that was hot-galvanized after weaving and fastened
> together 
> with cable-clamps.  In a visit to a local farm supply,
> I found some 
> similar material with 2 X 4 openings that was about half as
> expensive
> 
> 73, Pete
> 
> At 05:06 PM 6/12/2009, Joe Giacobello wrote:
> >I know that there are several folks out there who are
> using chicken wire
> >ground screens in addition to radials for their
> verticals.  I'm curious
> >to know if the various sections of chicken wire are (1)
> soldered to one
> >another and (2) to the radial system?  I'd guess
> if the chicken wire
> >sections were overlapped at their edges, there would be
> a high
> >probability of their making contact somewhere along
> their length so that
> >soldering wouldn't be unnecessary.  No?
> >
> >I presume that the lifetime on the ground for the
> chicken wire is
> >relatively short?  Two-three years?  OTOH,
> wouldn't the remnants of the
> >wire and its degradation products enhance the
> conductivity of the soil
> >surrounding the antenna so that the remaining radials
> are now more
> >effective?
> >
> >Just curious to know what your collective experiences
> and thoughts are
> >on this subject.
> >
> >Thanks for your input.
> >
> >73, Joe
> >K2XX
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