Re: [IRCA] antenna performance and snow

["Craig Healy" <bubba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> My experience with transmitting antennas is that snow cover has very
> little effect compared to ground wet from rain.  Judging by base
> current measurements and VSWR changes, rain soaked ground has a bit
> more effect than snow.

*** My experience here is that when either of the above conditions
prevail, the mixing products from the stronger locals are intensified.
Those I can usually hear become more pronounced, and some I only hear
under such conditions. Since this is based on either indoor loops or
car radio whips, the effect comes either from the transmitter location
or some other remote location.

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Wonder if that is from the water creating virtual mixing diodes out of some metal to metal junctions?  Aluminum downspouts, metal fences and the like.  I can't say as I have ever noticed that around here.

Craig Healy
Providence, RI




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