[TowerTalk] low band antenna without good ground

[ROBERT HARMON]

Great article on the mesh.

Thanks Ian, very  much appreciated !


Bob
K6UJ






On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:54 PM, Ian White GM3SEK wrote:

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