[Lowfer] Ground Screen ?

Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:49:05 -0400

Peter,

Check in with Bill Cantrell for all chicken wire questions 
at[[email protected]]. Used to have a portable chicken wire ground 
plane that he would roll out every Lowfer season. Claimed a 6db improvement 
and his TEXAS beacon had one of the most copied signals in the US. He had to 
drop out of the spotlight due to a change in residence and a lack of time to 
re-construct the beacon because of his work toward an advanced college 
degree.

Bill A

>From: "Peter Barick" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Lowfer] Ground Screen ?
>Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 13:49:06 -0500
>
>LowFERs,
>Re: Using Chicken Wire As Additional Ground Plane For LF
>
>The place where I work is unloading some bundled chicken wire. [No, I'm
>not into chicken raising.] Not missing a thought for a cheep temporary
>ground system [It's fall, done mowing.], I'm thinking of showing it the
>way home.
>
>But how is a good connection made to that stuff? It's galvo'd no. 18
>and all strands are held together by twisting. That doesn't seem a good
>ground path. Any ideas?
>
>One thought is to solder some house wire across a few of the lengthwise
>wires. But then maybe the rest of the wire will create noise due its
>"just touching" contact arrangement. I'm not sure.
>
>Peter

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