David Cutter wrote:
Sounds like this one:
<http://users.erols.com/k3mt/graswire/graswire.htm>
[referring to my original post]
A few minutes before the start of the ARRL 160m contest I decided to
try something I'd heard about. I took about 180 feet (55m) of wire and
laid it on the ground from my shack, across the backyard, around the
back of my garage and all the way down the edge of the driveway.
My 180' wire was resonant at about 2.2 mHz, where the SWR was around 1.4:1. Since signals
not down all that much compared to the vertical, I am sure that it would have worked as a
transmitting antenna, and possibly without a tuner if I had lengthened it a bit.
The interesting part is that it doesn't need to be straight to work. This could be very
useful in a real emergency.
--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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