[160m] Beverage ground rods

[Pete Rimmel - Marine Chemist - N8PR]

This is Vic Miser's ides, not mine !!  It is in his book.

73, PeteR


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji at contesting.com>
To: "Pete Rimmel - Marine Chemist - N8PR" <n8pr at bellsouth.net>; "Mike 
Bragassa" <bragassa at consolidated.net>; <160m at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: [160m] Beverage ground rods


>> I have seen several thoughts on grounding...  Misek in his
> Beverage Antenna
>> handbook says that at high fequuencies a nearly lossless
> ground is
>> important.  He even goes so far as to run a ground wire
> between the two
>> grounds at each end of the antenna.  At low frequencies,
> he suggests that
>> the ground be inefficient so that a tilt angle is created
> on the incoming
>> signal, thus creating a larger forward or reverse vector
> force in the wire.
>
> Bad idea for many reasons. First, the very last thing we
> want is conductive ground under the antenna. Beverages quit
> working as the ground gets better under the antenna. They
> won't work at all over a very good counterpoise.
>
> Second, the wire laying on the earth is made very lossy by
> the earth. It doesn't do what he claims at all. It does not
> provide a low resistance path for currents. It only can make
> things worse, not better.
>
> You can measure the ground resistance and monitor any change
> with something like a MFJ259B.
>
> 73 Tom
>
>