The possums could be used to your advantage if you are having interferrence
problems as at your field day site. They would form a stub of sorts,
relatively broad banded because of their somewhat lower conductivity factor
and also resulting in a low velocity factor and actually causing the possum
to appear to be much longer than it really is and the frequency of resonance
to be lower also. If they were tuned to the interferring frequency, you
might just be back in business.
Have you performed any testing using the possum stub?
tic, 73, de Jim KG0KP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Tucker" <w7wll@arrl.net>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antenna grease
> Works for birds, the gulls here on the coast can't function upside down
> which is the position they end up in. Big problem though! 'Possums can
> climb the tower and they think the upside down position is nifty.
> Significant SWR when they use the driven element though, target freq goes
> way down. So does the element if they get to far out.
>
> Don W7WLL
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chas" <chasm@texas.net>
> To: "Chuck" <w5pr@swbell.net>
> Cc: <towertalk@contesting.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 7:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] antenna grease
>
>
> Chuck wrote:
>> I don't think it would work. Why would you want to take down the
>> antennas
>> every year to polish the elements and then put grease on them?
>>
>> Chuck W5PR
>>
>
> to make your antenna bird proof?
>
> fwiw
>
> chas
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