[Lowfer] New LowFER Beacon NW
Bill Ashlock
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Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:44:00 -0500
>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.
Ahh, my faith in electronics is restored! <G> All makes good sense. Dale,
did you per chance run a test with just the two wires running down the pole,
but mounted at the edge of the field? IE: before adding the foil? My
thinking is that the losses in the green wood might have been relatively
small when running next to a couple of good conductors. On the other side of
the coin the large diameter of the pole leads to increased capacity, over
the two wire system, and some current flow through the lossy wood.
Good luck on that signal making it to distant sites!
Bill
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