[Antennas] Vertical

[Dr. William J. Schmidt, II]

Yeah leave the "salt" for your thanksgiving dinner and use a real 
engineering solution here...  That is unfounded witchcraft.  Elevated 
radials are great if you have the space for them (read that: get them far 
enough off the ground that you won't trip over them/ behead yourself/ they 
don't get caught in the mower/ etc.)... Of course 200+ buried radials works 
too (hundreds of AM stations can't be wrong!).

Sincerely,

Dr. William J. Schmidt, II  K9HZ
Trustee of the North American QRO - Central Division Club - K9ZC

Email: bill at wjschmidt.com
WebPage: www.wjschmidt.com

"It's not what you take with you... but what you leave behind that counts. 
Live each day as if it were your last."


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Boone" <CBoone at earthlink.net>
To: "'w8okn at charter.net'" <W8OKN at charter.net>; <antennas at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 5:13 PM
Subject: RE: [Antennas] Vertical


> Salt and other chemicals only help lower ground resistance on metal to 
> earth
> contact...if you are using radials and they are not buried, you won't see
> any improvement...Also rain water will wash away the salt and you have to
> constantly replinish it. If you go with elevated radials, you avoid the
> ground effect losses and changes due to seasons, etc and thus don't need 
> to
> add salt and only need 4 or so radials for decent effect....Look at 
> Cebik's
> web site for details on that.
>
> Chris
> WB5ITT
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>> The responses have been excellent.
>>
>> One ham suggested I add salt to my backyard.
>>
>> Any thoughts on that?  Sounds interesting.
>>
>> Sean
>> W8OKN
>
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