Galvanized or Copper Gound Rods?
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Richard Clark wrote:
Of necessity due to wavelength, your ground must be spread out (not
buried) to one quarter wavelength.
Richard-
I have a steel well pipe that is approximately a quarter wave on 40
Meters. Even though it is buried, why wouldn't this work as the bottom
half of a vertical dipole?
I tried it with a mobile whip as the vertical element. It worked better
than I expected, but not really well.
Fred
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