[TowerTalk] Not QUITE a tower

[Jack Brindle]

Oh boy. I grew up in Miami, 2 miles from the ocean. Three feet below  
the grass/coral rock was nice brackish water (aka the water table). My  
14AVQ didn't need any radials. It was wonderful, straight shot into  
Europe, lots of QSOs.  You probably do quite nicelu
On Oct 13, 2009, at 2:55 PM, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> In addition to Towertalk, I am aware of two antenna lists:
>
> antennaware at contesting.com
> antennas at mailman.qth.net
>
> I don't have any quantitative data, but suspect that at such a
> distance you would definitely see a difference from the effects of
> salt water vs. a normal earth ground.  Maybe I am just lucky, but the
> performance of my roof-mounted AV-640 vertical, which is ~200 ft from
> salt water (depending on the tide) greatly exceeds my expectations.
>
> Bob, N7XY
>
> On Oct 13, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Charlie Gallo wrote:
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>> Not sure if there is an antenna list, but...
>>
>> Any idea how close to salt water a vertical dipole array has to be
>> to work well?  15-20 ft to the side and 5 ft up close enough?
>>
>>
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