[Lowfer] WM "scribbling" is back in full swing

[Mike.WE0H]

But how does that happen when it is below zero up here? Snow covered 
ground or bare frozen dead everything ground, always the same. It's 
strange. Seen it for many years and never figured it out.

Mike
WE0H


W5JGV-Ralph wrote:
>> I always see a slightly higher SWR on my 600m vertical in
>> daylight than at night. It is this way in all 4 seasons here. I have
> no
>> clue why this is, but it is there.
> 
> I suspect it is due to the increased moisture on and in the grass and
> vegetation that is close to the antenna.  I see the effect here also,
> and it pretty much vanishes when I cut the grass really short.  The
> antenna field is planted in pasture grass, and if I let it grow wild it
> tends to get a couple of feet high.  Then the detuning really shows up
> at night.  The shorter the antenna and the more capacitively loaded it
> is, the more the effect, IMO.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Ralph   W5JGV - WD2XSH/7