[Elecraft] Groundplane antennas (was: Re: Elecraft CW Net Announcement)

[Rick M0LEP]

On Thu 30 Jul Bill Frantz wrote:
> Steve Stearns, K6OIK has a article in the latest QST about the 
> effect of trees on 160M vertical antennas. It reads like it is 
> the first in a series about the effect of trees on antenna performance.
> 
> It also mentions Jim, K9YC who has some direct experience, 
> living in a coast redwood forest.

I tried operating on a summit covered by a timber plantation; lots of 
tall fairly straight trees fairly regularly spaced. A friend operating 
at the same time from a short distance away near the edge of the 
plantation, and using an 817 and a dipole, made rather more contacts 
than I did...

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73, Rick, M0LEP   (KX3 #3281)