This is purely anecdotal. I visited San Andres & Providencia Islands
twenty times between 1970 and 1990. I always operated 160 during those visits.
On three occasions, at three different locations, I set up a 43 foot
"Minooka Special" within 30 feet of the waters edge and had some radials
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73's
JC
N4IS
-Original Message-
From: Topband [mailto:topband-boun...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Mike
Smith VE9AA
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 11:18 AM
To: topband@contesting.com
Subject: Re: Topband: verticals by the sea
Is there any advantage to using an inverted V
The benefits of a flat Fresnel zone are discussed in detail in:
https://archive.org/download/sitingcriteriafo139utla/sitingcriteriafo139utla.pdf
73
Frank
W3LPL
From: "Mike Smith VE9AA"
To: topband@contesting.com
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2015 3:17:48 PM
Subject: Re: Topban
Is there any advantage to using an inverted VEE by the sea? Didn't I read
inverted VEEs had a lot of vertical polarization?
Reason I ask is I plan to do the IOTA contest on an Island in NB or NS and
have not yet decided on an antenna.
Thanks,
Mike VE9AA
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick
NEC modeling to determine the effects on the fields radiated by a vertical
monopole when siting it near a salt-water coastline can be highly misleading
if the surface wave field is not considered.
For example, the plots linked below show that for average earth conductivity
the E-field at 5 deg
Just an FYI with respect to verticals by the sea.
In 2005, Al K3LC wrote a 3-part article for NCJ titled "Verticals by the
Sea". Part 1 is in the Jul/Aug 2005 issue, Part 2 is in the Sep/Oct 2005
issue and Part 3 is in the Nov/Dec 2005 issue. Using EZNEC Pro 4.0 with a
NEC-4 engine, he compared th
