40 meter groundplane questions
On Feb 28, 6:18*pm, wrote:
Update....
*After careful consideration of all the points raised here and also a
lot of thought on the mechanical and structural aspects of things, I
have decided to just go with ground mount setup with radials. I had
thought of building some type of lightweight vertical radiator and
mounting it atop the mast but I am trying to work with stuff I have on
hand. I can't afford to invest any money into buying any sort of
aluminum or other material to make such a radiator. As it is I will be
stripping insulation off of wire to make ground radials as I have no
bare copper. I once read somewhere not to use insulated wire for
ground radials if you wanted them to be part of you lightning ground as well.
*One problem I'm going to have though is with the mast being mounted
against the house. This is a manufactiured home and I have a crawl
space under the house. In order to try and get the best results I was
thinking of actually running some of the radials underneath the house
in the crawl space. I f I don't do this I will have radials running
out in three directions and will have a whole area of the ground
covered up by the footprint of the house that has no radials. Hope
that makes sense.
*Anyone see any problem with running radials on top of the ground
under the house in the crawl space area? Other than having to watch
out for them when I go under there of course.
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