Hi You very much do *not* want to put a ground plane on one of the modern survey antennas.(Chinese or US or Canadian or …) The better ones are very explicit about this. They are optimized to sit on a pole in free air. Anything else and the pattern is degraded. ( = multipath gets worse)
Bob > On Apr 30, 2019, at 2:23 PM, David J Taylor via time-nuts > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi David, > > No, no ground plane. Don’t really have a lot of room for that in the window. > Out of curiosity, how large of an impact have you found with a ground plane? > > Btw, I love the pan! > > Denny > ============================ > > Yes, Denny, choosing the baking tray (IIRC) was fun - I wanted as large a > flat area as I could reasonably get, but it has to be magnetic. I don't > recall what I took into the shop to test with! > > Unfortunately I didn't make any specific measurements with and without the > ground plane, but I did see a noticeable increase in SNR. Even a small e.g. > tobacco tin may help. > > Cheers, > David > -- > SatSignal Software - Quality software for you > Web: http://www.satsignal.eu > Email: [email protected] > Twitter: @gm8arv > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
