On Mar 23, 7:58*pm, dave wrote:
On 3/23/2011 9:55 AM, bpnjensen wrote:





On Mar 23, 7:39 am, *wrote:
On 03/23/2011 08:18 AM, bpnjensen wrote:

On Mar 23, 4:39 am, wrote:
I did some surfing on the Internet and found a great deal of information
about Ground Antennas. * Run a wire from a grounding rod to your antenna
lead on your radio and sure enough you start pulling in signals from the
ground. I conducted a simple test and it seems that some stations on the
lower bands offer *very acceptable reception. *I also read that this
matter was studied up until the 1930's and then all research ended. *I
don't recall this ever discussed in this group before. * Comments?

Roger

I wonder what would happen if you then also stuck a wire up a tree
amnd connected it to your radio's ground?

I don't believe in ground.

It sure helps here! *It both drains off some of the noise and cranks
up the signal. *It's easy to tell when the grounds are disconnected....

I'm floating. The coax shield has a lightning ground where it enters the
shack. The 43'vertical is like a really big CB radio groundplane on the
roof. Every antenna except for traveling wave antennas is a dipole.- Hide quoted text -

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Don't agree with this formulation . There are many other antenna types
and none of them are dipoles .