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Re: Topband: Necessity of a Ground Screen under a well radialedvertical

To: Rudy Severns <n6lf@arrl.net>
Subject: Re: Topband: Necessity of a Ground Screen under a well radialedvertical
From: "Richard (Rick) Karlquist" <richard@karlquist.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:57:57 -0700
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Rudy Severns wrote:

> In one of the experiments I added a ground screen over 64 radials and was 
> not able to detect any difference with or without the screen.
> 
> 73, Rudy N6LF 

OTOH, I did the opposite experiment, adding 64 radials over a screen.
The signal strength didn't change, but the drive impedance dropped
from 70 to 36 ohms.

Rick N6RK
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