[ARC5] Balanced antenna coupling...

[Dennis Monticelli]

Hmmm.  Perhaps you can just lay a goodly number of radial wires right along
the surface of the pavers.  Enough such radials and the ground rod is not
so important.  If there is soil along the fence edge you can terminate the
ends of some of the radials in ground rods.

Dennis AE6C

On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:51 AM, AKLDGUY . <neilb0627 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dennis
>
> > At 5' max height your short doublet is going to be largely
> omnidirectional anyway at the bands of interest
> > so don't worry about orientation.
>
> I feared it would be omnidirectional. Or maybe I'm glad, since it means I
> can be a bit less concerned
> about orientation. What was that about every cloud?
>
> > You might consider a short vertical with top loading.  Put up a five
> foot pole with adjustable loading coil in
> > the middle...
>
> My yard has a concrete paver surface and digging a hole is grounds for
> termination of tenancy.
> Thanks for the suggestions though.
>
> 73 de Neil ZL1ANM
>
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