[TowerTalk] Vertical in pond

[Roger Parsons]

Jim

I'm not sure that this is exactly analagous, but I have a tri-band vertical mounted right at the edge of a reasonably large lake (~0.5km x 20km). I found that that dramatically improved its performance compared to mounting it 100m away. The improvement was at least 10dB which changed it from being a waste of time to a useful second antenna - and the radial system (lots) was identical in each case.

73 Roger
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