[Antennas] Problem Installation

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

A great answer Tony.

What I'm using now is a 260 foot total length dipole (130 on a side) but it 
is up only 50 feet.  It is over salt water marsh.  The tower is on a high 
spot in the middle.  The ends are supported by ten foot wooden masts stuck 
in the marsh mud.  I left the antenna as high as possible by using lots of 
rope at the end and making the angle more obtuse.

This was the best I could do with the "no wire" over the driveway rule and 
the lack of supports (trees) as the area behind the tower is a salt marsh 
(tidal) which floods at high tide.

What I thought to do was ground the far end of the wire by the base of the 
tower and feed the antenna backwards at the end.

This would always produce a voltage minimum at the far end and a current 
maximum (grounded antenna) so the tower would always be high current and 
produce radiation - and it is vertical.

The problem is an efficient ground at the other end!

Great answer Tony!!

73
DR