Re: [IRCA] Ground conductivity

["Joe Miller, AB8YP" <ab8yp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Patrick

I don't have the space to install any beverage
antennas and have next to no experience with them
other that through study materials.

Do you terminate your bevs with say a 470 Ohm resistor
and several small radials where the opposite end is
attached to the grounding rod?

Thank you in advance.


73 --- Joe


--- Patrick Martin <mwdxer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> 
> Joe,
> 
> Thanks for your comments. It is all related. Being
> heavily into antennas
> for years, I work with the grounding and all. In my
> recent complaints
> about how poor my beverage has gotten, I found a lot
> of it was because
> of my old ground rods from the 80s. The area was so
> overgrown that I
> could not even get to them easily, so I installed a
> new one a couple
> feet this side of the old ones. Boy what a
> difference. The antenna so
> far seems like it is working more like its old self.
> However, cx have
> been poor, so it is hard to tell how well it is
> working to a point. I do
> get KBOI-670 and KSL-1160 better during the day now.
> I plan a second new
> ground rod in a bit later. Today it is showery and
> the high grass is
> wet, so I will wait until it dries out again. 



 
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