[TowerTalk] FW: low band antenna without good ground

Kevin Normoyle knormoyle at surfnetusa.com
Sun Sep 25 09:41:22 PDT 2011


> From ON4UN's Low-Band DXing regarding ground enhancements using mesh
screening...   "Steel is a very poor conductor at RF"


Looking at VK1OD's table here, zinc is pretty good
http://vk1od.net/antenna/conductors/loss.htm

so zinc-plated steel, or Al would be fine, it's just the corrosion issues.?

-kevin
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