[IRCA] Metallic return

[Charles A Taylor <MWDXer@xxxxxxx>]

Nick,

To obviate the necessity of good grounds for a EWE, I was thinking
along the lines of a metallic return: simply a buried wire, with
either the terminated end or the feedpoint left ungrounded.

Do you think this would make the termination more predictable?

I converted my 22-metre longwire into a EWE with 4.6-metre
"legs." The difference was amazing.

It is an excellent antenna, and happens to be situated in a
low-RFI portion of our property.

Steve Ratzlaff suggests I raise the height of the legs. I
can get 1.65-metre steel mast sections for fairly cheap.

What sayest thou, Oh Great Knight of the Breakfast Table?

Charles 


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