This is purely anecdotal. I visited San Andres Providencia Islands
twenty times between 1970 and 1990. I always operated 160 during those visits.
On three occasions, at three different locations, I set up a 43 foot
Minooka Special within 30 feet of the waters edge and had some radials
NEC modeling to determine the effects on the fields radiated by a vertical
monopole when siting it near a salt-water coastline can be highly misleading
if the surface wave field is not considered.
For example, the plots linked below show that for average earth conductivity
the E-field at 5
Is there any advantage to using an inverted VEE by the sea? Didn't I read
inverted VEEs had a lot of vertical polarization?
Reason I ask is I plan to do the IOTA contest on an Island in NB or NS and
have not yet decided on an antenna.
Thanks,
Mike VE9AA
Mike, Coreen Corey
Keswick
: verticals by the sea
Is there any advantage to using an inverted VEE by the sea? Didn't I read
inverted VEEs had a lot of vertical polarization?
Reason I ask is I plan to do the IOTA contest on an Island in NB or NS and
have not yet decided on an antenna.
Thanks,
Mike VE9AA
Mike
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73's
JC
N4IS
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Is there any advantage to using an inverted VEE
