All have forgotten to mention that the grounding rods need to be pounded
into the air. While the medium is not too hard, there has always been some
difficulty with the ground rods shifting. Various work-arounds have been
developed to address this problem. I have always been partial to the
My favorite Larson E. Rapp article was the one about the buried
antenna. He had read in the Antenna Book that every dipole has an
image antenna an equal distance below ground. So he figured you could
just as well put the real antenna under ground and then the image would
be up in the air.
I
Finally, relief from my homeowners' association's restriction on
antennas!
Forget verticals and dipoles, I'm going to go bury a 4-el tribander in
my back yard as soon as I find the time! ;-)
73,
Dave K7DAA
http://www.k7daa.com
On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:10 PM, Alan Bloom wrote:
My favorite
Forget verticals and dipoles, I'm going to go bury a 4-el tribander in
my back yard as soon as I find the time! ;-)
Don't forget hole safety procedures when descending into your hole. Many
lifes have been lost due to negative gravity effects a deep hole causes.
Also your hole needs to be at
Don't forget to point the rotator downwards.
Kevin
VK3DAP / ZL2DAP
Dave Andrus wrote:
Finally, relief from my homeowners' association's restriction on antennas!
Forget verticals and dipoles, I'm going to go bury a 4-el tribander in
my back yard as soon as I find the time! ;-)
73,
Dave
, Bill N2BC
K2/06254, K3/soon!
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T. David Yarnes wrote
, March 19, 2008 11:41 PM
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Finally, relief from my homeowners' association's restriction on
antennas!
Forget verticals and dipoles, I'm going to go bury a 4-el tribander in
my back yard as soon as I find
Well, I think we should remove them again grin.
Rich
NU6T
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The Swedish E.E./ham, Loof Lirpa, pioneered underwater HF antennas. A lot
of his work had application to underground antennas as well.
73 Gil NN4CW
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Actually the bulk of the Navy's ELF TX antenna in Clam Lake WI is/was
burried underground...
Jon
w1jp
Before we laugh too much, underground antennas do work. See Practical
Wire
Antennas, John Heys, G3BDQ, p79: Subsurface (underground) Antennas. (OK,
define, work).
Rich
NU6T
snip/
OK, now how am I going to explain to my neighbors in our all mobile home
community why I'm burying wire down the middle of the street? After
all, a 160 meter Rhombic is rather large!! Someone is bound to notice.
73 and tongue firmly planted in cheek,
John W4CWZ
Dave Andrus wrote:
Finally,
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From: Bill Coleman N2BC [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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It took a sting of posts this morning
Nah - no one will notice, and if they do, just tell them it's part of
your new wireless (hah!) internet hookup.
- Jim, KL7CC
John Payne wrote:
OK, now how am I going to explain to my neighbors in our all mobile
home community why I'm burying wire down the middle of the street?
After all,
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Likewise my QST has not yet arrived. Hopefully if the Post Office
mis
With trepidation I read the article in the latest QST - the same issue
in which the K3 review is published - Audio Frequency Enhancement. As
I feared, the secret is out. Just look at the top cover of your K3 and
read the article and you'll understand. (Not an ARRL member? Sorry, it
is
Hmm! Has Larson E. Rapp been reincarnated in the
body of Steven G. Katz?
Dave W7AQK
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T. David Yarnes wrote:
Hmm! Has Larson E. Rapp been reincarnated in the body of Steven
G. Katz?
I think they are 3rd cousins, twice removed.
Lyle
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