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Aaron
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Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 05:59:41 +
From: Nick Hall-Patch n...@ieee.org
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [IRCA] steel wire fence in Venice
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Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 05:59:41 +
From: Nick Hall-Patch n...@ieee.org
To: Mailing list for the International Radio Club of America
irca@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [IRCA] steel wire fence in Venice, CA (near Los
Some unknowns here, Aaron...is it a single wire on supports? A wire
fence is a grid of wires in many people's minds, and that's mostly a
random chunk of metal as far as being a radio antenna. If it is a
single wire on supports, are the supports non-conductive?
Because the bike path is
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Usually I just put my radio on the fence and it boosts reception strength
significantly. Unfortunately it'd be untuned, so local stations would likely
overload the receiver, negating most of the advantage and masking the weaker
signals that otherwise would be heard.
73,
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I should clarify (in case there's any confusion) that I mean metal fences in
general, like chain-link fences or other wire fences. I haven't been to or
tried that specific fence. It also works for utility pole ground wires,
although in those cases you also have the noise