[Lowfer] Embattled E-Probe

Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:11:04 -0400

You know Peter, you ought to get outside and run some of these experiments, 
yourself, instead of sitting around and making fun of those that have! If 
you had ever walked around with a potable LF receiver in one hand and an 
E-probe in the other you wouldn't be making these statements. Those that 
have touched an E-probe to any tree know exactly what I mean. One of my 
experiments a few years ago was to move an E-probe back and forth on a rope 
at 40ft above ground, incrementally changing the spacing to a 50ft tree. The 
test results indicated an increase in signal as the spacing to the tree 
decreased, ending in a rapid increase to + 20%  in signal when the spacing 
became 0.  Numerous other Lowfer experimenters have reported similar 
results.

Bill A

>From: "Peter Barick" <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [Lowfer] Embattled E-Probe
>Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 14:20:04 -0500
>
>was <Re: Fw: Re: [Lowfer] MP's captures>
> >>> [email protected] 10/06/03 01:13PM >>>
> >Bob,
>
> >>The E field probe is up at 25 Ft
> >>but under the other ham antennas which is really a no no.
>
> >Right.
>
> > Have you tried locating the probe in one of the pine trees in
>
> > No problem with the antenna rod contacting the branches.
> > In fact this would probably improve the S/N.
>
> >Bill A
>-----------------------------------------------
>
>Hmm? Is this too in the realm of the 1,000 foot hotel or something more
>misty, DST? Think I remembered you boring (as with drill!) into some
>hapless tree last season not to extract sap, but for extracting signals.
>I discounted it them cuz it's something I aint gunna do, but this "tip"
>now about branches harassing an e-probe, whats with dat? Why is
>cap-loading bad (when under trees, objects (first floor of a 1,000 foot
>hotel), but cap "sapping" is OK?
>
>I've heard some pines reach the heights of small hotels. Intuition and
>safety tells me to protect an e-probe by keeping it isolated in the near
>field. High and DRY, as they say, aye Bill?
>
>Peter, pining both for the answer and CST
>
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