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Topband: screen type ground systems

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Subject: Topband: screen type ground systems
From: herbs@vitelcom.net (Herbert Schoenbohm)
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 12:17:00 -0400
Expanded copper mesh is simply the best hands down!  However, it is not
inexpensive.  But in the long run lasts for years.  I check a 50 x 50 foot piece
at a local BC station recently.  It had been laid down in 1976 and was still
intact even though many #6 radials were in poor shape.

Herb Schoenbohm (ex-KV4FZ)
St. Croix, VI

Schieving wrote:

> Topbanders..
> Whilst rummaging thru some stuff, I found an article by Rob Sherwood...It
> was a test of
> ground screens...I guess they weren't really screens but chicken wire in
> various configurations.
>


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