Ken, That is called a "Beverage-on-Ground" (BOG) antenna (you probably knew that). Check out ON4UN's "Low-Band DXing" for interesting antenna ideas.
In 2009 I ran 930-foot of wire to make a BOG for 600m (500-KHz) but it didn't work as well as my 43x130 foot inverted-L. After a couple months my neighbor rolled it up as he needed to drive his logging equipment across where it lay (it was run parallel to his private airstrip). I ended up with a nice supply of coax (500-foot RG-58) and a bunch of old RG-8 good only for use as radials. I still have an L-shaped wire laid out 250-foot on the ground but it was un-impressive as an antenna. Some day I will roll it up to re-use. If you are wondering I used the shield as the antenna and ran dc relay control voltage on the center wire (to change direction of the BOG). ------------------------------ Message: 33 Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:52:44 -0600 From: "Ken - K0PP" <[email protected]> Subject: [Elecraft] OT "Underground" antennas To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <35AD1B977DFB4AADB293AD2A3F14F432@shack> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original For a number of years on the Friday beginning the ARRL and CQ 160 contests I walked across the field behind the house in the direction of JA, unrolling a 5K foot spool of #18 enameled wire onto the top of the snow. It seemed to do a reasonable job of receiving. After the contest(s) I'd roll it back onto it's spool. Then snowmobiling became popular .... 73! Ken - K0PP 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kw?, 144-1.4kw, 432-100w, 1296-60w*, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
