I don't want to take away from the original topic but this raises an
interesting question: If I have a horizontal antenna such as some
sort of dipole (a REAL dipole and not the thing the Ask Dave guy
thinks is a dipole in QST) and it's over a ground screen, will the
screen work better if it is tied into the station ground, or left
floating? This isn't a trick question. It's something I've wondered
about.
73
Rob
K5UJ
On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM Jim Lux <jim@luxfamily.com> wrote:
> True enough - Let's say "if I drive a ground stake at the base, and I don't
> connect my radials to it, the antenna with the radials will still work better
> than the antenna without"
> (or, if I use my coax shield as the "ground radial that is connected at the
> antenna feedpoint" :) )
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