Snow and/or natural ice that fell from the sky is barely conductive if
at all and likely has zero effect. All or part of your antenna laying
on the ground will sure lower it's radiating efficiency [although maybe
not as much as you might think], but HF radio is sometimes magic. Like
quantum mechanics, it's all probabilities. Instead of "shouldn't work,"
ask "what's the probability that it will work?" 😁
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 12/15/2020 9:45 AM, David Haines wrote:
Update:
With one-quarter of one leg of the dipole still under ice, I got a
reception report from PSKReporter on FT8 with 2 watts to Italy. That
shouldn't work, should it? Maybe the ice doesn't matter?
KD5VXH recalled a discussion in QST on this very subject, where 400W
AM melted the ice on one leg of the dipole (fed by coax), but not the
other.
'
You can follow the controversy in May and July 1960 letters in QST!
david
KC1DNY
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