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Old April 29th 13, 10:51 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Rob[_8_] Rob[_8_] is offline
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Default Anyone know where I can find plans for an artificial ground?

Szczepan Bialek wrote:
The radial connected with the shield of the coax is the ground.


No Szczepan!
You keep saying that, but it is wrong.

When a coax shield is grounded at one end, and after a considerable
length of coax it is connected at the dipole, the shield at that
end is no longer ground.

Especially when the length of the coax is about a quarter wavelength,
it will have nothing to do with ground.