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Re: [IRCA] More on Vertical
Hello Patrick.
I use three 2 foot linked copper rods to earth/ground my 400 foot long wire antenna. What are "ground radials?"
Barry
Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Everyone,
In adding more radials to the NW/N/NE. I now have four, the directivity
of the vertical has improved more to the NW/N/NE. I notice now that many
stations that were heard before are there, many under closer stronger
stations.
550 KARI Blaine WA u/KOAC Corvallis
660 KAPS Mt. Vernon WA stronger u/KXOR-Junction City OR
790 KGMI Bellingham WA stronger u/KWIL Albany
930 KBAI Bellingham now half and half with KYAK-Yakima (10 kw)
1040 CKST Vancouver tearing up KLVP-Tigard OR (CKST is very directional
North)
1070 CFAX Victoria, now close to S6. The best I have heard them
since I lost my Northern beverage, and now less noisy. CFAX puts out
40-60 watts in my direction days according to their CE. They are about
160 miles to the North.
1110 KWDB Oak Harbor, WA, now generally dominant with their
little
500w. Before not audible days, except near LSS.
1260 UNID Signs of a second station now way behind KLYC McMinnville
OR, probably the TIS on Vancouver Is.
1290 KIKN Port Angeles WA, now 30% on the mix with KKSL Portland
(Not audible before)
1300 KKOL Seattle, now audible days weakly. Their 1 KW longwire
does not get out well.
1320 CHMB Vancouver BC, now audible with CC talk behind now
powerhouse KXRO Aberdeen, WA
1410 CFUN Vancouver BC, heard mixing and behind KBNP Portland
1430 KBRC Mt. Vernon, WA behind KYKN Salem OR
1470 CJVB Vancouver behind KELA Centralia WA
1550 KRPI Ferndale WA, mixes with KKAD Vacouver WA.
1590 KLFE Seattle WA, mixes behind KMBD Tillamook OR
1600 KVRI Blaine WA, mixes with KOHI St. Helens/KPOT Eugene days.
I am wondering if I got a large piece of tin maybe 4X8 and placed it in
the direction to the NW/N/NE and connected my ground plane to that, if
it would
enhance the NW/N/NE even more? The one thing I have noticed the
ground radials are quieter than the series of ground rods I have been
using my the veritical.
The field is total open to the N/NE for 1/2 miles or more and with
houses and the hills behind me, it probably makes some difference, but
the radials, even though they are only 10 feet long, have made a
difference in reception to the N/NE. But to enhance it even more?
73s,
Patrick
Patrick Martin
Seaside OR
KAVT Reception Manager
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