To: | Brian Machesney <nekvtster@gmail.com>, 'TopBand' <topband@contesting.com> |
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Subject: | Re: Topband: Fence "ground screen" instead of wire radials? |
From: | Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> |
Reply-to: | jim@audiosystemsgroup.com |
Date: | Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:31:41 -0700 |
List-post: | <topband@contesting.com">mailto:topband@contesting.com> |
On 9/2/2011 6:06 PM, Brian Machesney wrote: > Thanks to NI0C for reminding me that this info was presented by NC0B When I lived in a Chicago neighborhood, I had a big wrought iron fence around the front of my lot, and used it as a counterpoise for a 160M Tee quasi-vertical (my 80/40 dipole fed with twin lead, both sides tied together and fed against that fence). It worked. Not as good as a good radial system, but much better than nothing. There are still photos on my website if you poke around long enough. 73, Jim K9YC _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK |
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