I would like to share my experiences with 160m operations during the SP contest last December. My rental house in St George Isl FL had a 140 ft pier over the bay. Also a power line to the end of the
Im far from an expert but if you were over salt water I would have placed the counterpoise in the water. Id be curious what others think. Great experience though... Cecil K5DL _________________ Searc
Hi Cecil,No...you don't want your counterpoise in the water. The reason is that RF does not penetrate very far into salt water.The only exception would be if the water was only a few inches deep like
There was a report from an expedition where the radials in water did not work well but over water did. Over salt water, one radial (counterpoise) is enough and more do not add performance. I used Exp
Important facts about salt water are the attenuation of a wire submerged 10" at 1MHz is -87db and at 4S/m the conductivity is 10,000,000 times less than copper wire. Putting a single radial in a loss
Thank you Grant...you said it better than I. The important thing is to keep the wire out of the water.Robert,If you were to use 1 or 2 radials suspended above the water, could you support the ends us