[MRCA] Field Antenna ideas

[B. Smith]

Chain link fence= Counter poise.

On 10/4/2021 4:21 PM, Ray Fantini wrote:
>
> As stated earlier, am planning on operating on both forty and sixty 
> meter nets this weekend at Hagerstown. At the Aberdeen site was not an 
> issue using my drive on twenty-four foot push up mast and being able 
> to attach end of inverted V to stakes in the ground. Just had to be 
> careful to install in locations that people walk thru. They had 
> several small trees on the island so sometimes attached to the tree 
> one end of the V.
>
> At Hagerstown Airport will be on concrete or asphalt and under strict 
> orders not to drive any stakes, spikes or ground rods.  Something like 
> being at the old Aberdeen site being could not use the center mast 
> pivot and fiberglass tube mast set or do a ground rod there.
>
> Was thinking that I can use the chain link fence just across from 
> spaces M11 and M12 to attach end of V antennas at a safe level above 
> ground, will have traffic traveling underneath but don’t think that 
> will be an issue. Bigger question is if there is an issue attaching 
> two ends of the same antenna to a chain link fence?
>
> Can always use the seventeen-foot vertical antenna on the mutt but 
> because of the restrictions cannot drive a ground rod and do not know 
> if I will be able to run a counterpoise.
>
> Anyone have any thoughts or ideas? Remember that the idea is to use 
> something period appropriate and not go with a Ham Stick or loop 
> antenna. Just that working on hard surface parking lots is always a issue.
>
> Back at Gilbert (MRCA) used the fiberglass mast kit along with ground 
> rod at radio and did end up attaching one end of the V to a chain-link 
> fence but the other was pounded into the ground.
>
> Always had good results on the low bands using the V, the antenna on 
> the MUTT works great on twenty meters and above and wonder if it would 
> be better to just use the whip even though I won’t have long 
> counterpose or ground?
>
> Attached is a drawing that shows the old Aberdeen site (Fig-1) and the 
> New Hagerstown site (Fig-2).
>
> Ray F/KA3EKH
>
>
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