neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> made an utterance to the drakelist gang ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Another sort of intangible issue has to do with the ground conductivity in your area, especially with vertical antennas, but probably with others as well.
For example, I have been very satisfied with the performance of a windom antenna. It's not up very high, and the two legs aren't even 180-degrees apart due to the limitations of tree locations, but I do live on the coast, across the street from a salt marsh. I'm sure that contributes to its performance in some way. OTOH, when I set up a "better" version of the same antenna (higher, straighter) at my in-laws place on the volcanic island of Hawaii, it didn't begin to compare. As one of the local hams out there told me, "there is no ground here - we're sitting on top of a huge glass insulator"! Neil, KX2Y ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unsubscribe drakelist in body Hopelessly Lost: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - help in body of message Zerobeat Web Page: www.zerobeat.net - sponsored by www.tlchost.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
