[Lowfer] New LowFER Beacon NW

[Dale Rice]

I disconnected it from the ground in a part of the forest that needed
thinning and relocated it outside my shack window for testing. I ran two
wires along it and leaned it against the upstairs balcony. After observing
that it had a very low Q, I decided that part of the loss was the moist
house and part of it from it being a very green tree. I moved it out to the
edge of the barley field a few hundred feet from anything tall, lined it
with foil, set it on an insulator and guyed it there. At least it has some Q
now.

Dale R

>
> >The antenna is a 4 inch at the base by 47 foot fir tree stripped of bark
> >and lined with aluminum foil.
>
> Interesting idea, Dale. Is the base of the tree cut off with an insulator
> installed (guys added, of course) or are you accepting the resistive loss
> between the root system and the trunk as not being significant?
>
> Bill