[TowerTalk] low band antenna without good ground

[Ian White GM3SEK]

ROBERT HARMON wrote:
>You guys have me interested also.  I have a small lot only 70 feet by 
>120 feet. Do you think I would wasting my time with this small of an 
>area for rolling out the ground screen for the low bands ?
>

Not wasting your time at all. When you are limited to short distances 
from  the base of the antenna, a roll of mesh is equivalent to a large 
number of individual radials - with the advantage that you can roll them 
all up in one go.

Rob Sherwood's 'Ham Radio' article is required reading because he 
compared several different layouts for a given amount of mesh. The 
article is on his website, at:
<http://www.sherweng.com/documents/GroundScreen-sm.pdf>




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73 from Ian GM3SEK
http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek