[600MRG] the radials on the ground repurposed...

[William E. Isakson]

Bart, a dipole on the ground goes straight up.  It is great for local
work.  I used to live in a valley north of San Francisco that was isolated
on 2 meters from us to our county courthouse, so we put up a 40 meter
dipole at about clothesline height which bounced the signal in the daytime
right over the mountain to the courthouse.  We learned that from experience
in Irag and Iran where dipoles in and on the sand were found to radiate
straight up.
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Bill Isakson     AC6QV
Roseburg, Oregon USA
bill.isakson at gmail.com




On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 6:46 PM Bart Lee <bart.lee.k6vk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems that laying a yagi on the desert sands of Arabia does not in any way
> interfere with its performance, because real ground is so far below and the
> sand is a near perfect insulator.  Same goes for thick ice.  So maybe those
> two wires themselves could make a good 160m antenna.  And if so, what would
> it take to load it for 630m?  (Admittedly, I'm a lot better at imagining
> such things that I am at making them work!) 73 de Bart, K6VK ##
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