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Old February 16th 14, 10:54 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Brian Reay[_5_] Brian Reay[_5_] is offline
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Default RV/Mobilehome RF gnd systems.

Wymsey wrote:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014 10:46:31 -0500, Bill Ogden wrote:

Put the tripod on top of the RV and connect the "ground" to the RV top.
It may be not much of a ground on the lower bands, but it should get a
signal out on the higher bands.


For holiday operating I have a set of quarter wave conterpoises taped
together which I load a vertical against (fibre glass fishing pole with
wire attached). It would be trivial to layout the counterpoise under a
campervan.



That is pretty well what I do now. I am looking for other, hopefully
better, ideas.

Have you not seen my posts on uk.radio.amateur re using a single counter
poise? Much quicker to deploy and less of a trip hazard.