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Old June 16th 04, 10:18 AM
Dr Brain
 
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Default antenna with a tent

Hi everyone,
as I understand half-wave vertical dont need much of a ground
but it would be nice to have one. And my question: while camping
using a tent that is made from aluminium-coated nylon, could one
use tents inner coating as a counterpoise to half-wave vertical.
Im sure for 1/4 wave this coating would have much too big resistance,
but for 1/2 wave where feedpoint voltages are high it should be ok?
When working from insaid the tent, rig ground connected to tent's
aluminium coating , is it electrically same situation if you were
buried under ground? Is there any performance differences expected
when rig ground is connected to insaid or outsaid of that aluminium
screen. I found this rather confusing..
Any comments?

Andrus