Hi Pete. My inverted L over K2AV FCP was in the trees touching limbs and
leaves. Although it worked OK it wasn't until I moved it into the clear that I
realized how much signal I was loosing having it in the trees. Nearly 3db
increase according to RBN after the move. RBN testing was done imme
roject,
Darrell AB2E
From: Topband on behalf of N4ZR
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:23 AM
To: topband reflector
Subject: Topband: Inverted L in contact with leaves
My inverted L is taking shape - about 60 vertical, the rest horizontal.
For a couple of months anyway, it is touching a num
I use a 68 foot base loaded vertical wire and what I notice is a
significant downward shift in the resonant frequency during the summer
(like 40 kHz) when leaves are touching my vertical, and when the leaves
fall the resonant frequency comes right back up to where I originally set
it. My feeling i
Hi Pete
You won't have an issue at all.
73, Mike va3mw
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 12:24 PM Gary Smith wrote:
> I sure don't have any kind of superstation
> but I have never been lucky enough to have
> a 160 antenna in the clear. All mine have
> always not only touched leaves, but are
> always res
I sure don't have any kind of superstation
but I have never been lucky enough to have
a 160 antenna in the clear. All mine have
always not only touched leaves, but are
always resting on branches, many branches.
I still get out pretty well, I wouldn't
worry about a few leaves coming in
contac
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From: Topband on behalf of N4ZR
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:23 AM
To: topband reflector
Subject: Topband: Inverted L in contact with leaves
My inverted L is taking shape - about 60 vertical, the rest horizontal.
For a couple of months anyway, it is touching a number of le
My inverted L is taking shape - about 60 vertical, the rest horizontal.
For a couple of months anyway, it is touching a number of leaves in the
vertical section. I assume that's not a concern, but thought I'd ask
before I get a lot of radials down. First short radial is down and
MFJ-259 resul
