[600MRG] [Lowfer] My Tree-Tenna Experiment - 8-13-2014

[riese-k3djc at juno.com]

check out beverage antennas on wikipedia,,,, a long wire on the ground
with a resister termination

Bob K3DJC


On Wed, 13 Aug 2014 21:40:27 -0400 KU4XR <ku4xrradio at gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Merv Schweigert <k9fd at flex.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Do not see how this is any comparison at all,  if you are tuning 
> the wire
> > when connected to the tree,  for a fair comparison you would have 
> to
> > retune the wire again after disconnecting,
> ____________________________________________________
> 
> Hi Merv: Thanks for the comments.. I have Re-Tuned the short wire
> after seeing what
> happened when disconnecting it from the tree.. Doing so; the noise 
> level rose by
> 2 S-units on 474.200 KHz.. I won't be able to check the difference 
> on
> the signal from
> the radio station until Thursday afternoon, when it's back on the 
> air,
> and skywave at
> the minimum for the day... This has been an ongoing experiment for a 
> few months,
> just for fun, and just to see what happens... I found out 
> immediately,
> after disconnecting
> the wire from the tree, that the short wire is a " house noise "
> magnifier !! When TV's
> come on; reception is obliterated with the " wire " un-terminated..
> This brings back to
> my mind a comment from another post made on my experiment, being 
> that
> the tree is
> most likely just a resistive termination point in the way I am
> connecting to it..
> 
> Interesting !! This has me wondering if I were to drive in a ground
> rod, and connect a
> variable resistor in series with it, and the " wire " ; if I could
> adjust the resistor for a value
> that would yield the same results as the termination to the tree ??
> 
> No Doubt !! The short " wire " - IS - the pick-up element in the
> equation.. However, the
> termination to the tree made it a much quieter receiveing antenna 
> than
> it is un-terminated..
> 
> 73:
> 
> Andy - KU4XR
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