[Elecraft] searching for post by Wayne n6kr about counterpoise

Bill Frantz frantz at pwpconsult.com
Sun Sep 9 02:35:40 EDT 2018


Some window screens are aluminum. I've used aluminum screen 
successfully for the ground plane for a 10M vertical antenna.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 9/8/18 at 5:00 PM, k6dgw at foothill.net (Fred Jensen) wrote:

>Window screens were copper in those days.  I tried it out with 
>my "28-28" [6J6-2E26] rockbound 10 m TX, and indeed, I seemed 
>to be able to work everything I heard if I had a 40 m rock 
>close enough.  Window screens are no longer copper so I don't 
>think it would work today.

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