For those who enjoy modeling you might want to take a look at this "vertical on
a beach" thread which was posted on eHam several months ago:
http://www.eham.net/ehamforum/smf/index.php/topic,98217.0.html
There are several caveats to watch out for. In particular it's very easy to
put the antenna "out to sea" when you meant for it to be "back from the beach".
For a discussion of this and other issues see section "Using 2 Ground Media"
here:
http://ac6la.com/aepatterns.html
Also note the comments made by K4SAV in the second post of that eHam thread.
And if you continue reading the third post and beyond you'd better have a large
bowl of popcorn ready. The thread went off on a marginally-related tangent for
the next 10 pages! :)
Dan, AC6LA
http://ac6la.com
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