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Sun Tzu August 30th 06 12:02 PM

Ground screen material
 
I have a vertical antenna I would like to build a ground screen for.
Can someone suggest what type of material I can use for this?
I would like to purchase the material from Lowe's or Home Depot if
possible.

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Denny August 30th 06 01:44 PM

Ground screen material
 
Best bet is aluminum porch screen... Lay it down in a square under the
antenna... Attach radial wires and carry them out as far as you can...
You can also get aluminum roof flashing in several widths... I used
this for my 160 and 80 meter radial experiments last summer... I have
several rolls of 24" wide on the shelf right now waiting for the next
burst of antenna testing...

denny


Allodoxaphobia August 30th 06 03:44 PM

Ground screen material
 
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 01:02:14 -1000, Sun Tzu wrote:
I have a vertical antenna I would like to build a ground screen for.
Can someone suggest what type of material I can use for this?
I would like to purchase the material from Lowe's or Home Depot if
possible.


For a 10GHz vertical an aluminum pie tin should suffice.

Sun Tzu September 2nd 06 03:55 AM

Ground screen material
 
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:44:07 -0700, Denny wrote:

Best bet is aluminum porch screen... Lay it down in a square under the
antenna... Attach radial wires and carry them out as far as you can... You
can also get aluminum roof flashing in several widths... I used this for
my 160 and 80 meter radial experiments last summer... I have several rolls
of 24" wide on the shelf right now waiting for the next burst of antenna
testing...

denny


How do you attach aluminum screen to copper radials?

disimilar metals problem? Diode?


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Cecil Moore September 2nd 06 02:06 PM

Ground screen material
 
Sun Tzu wrote:
How do you attach aluminum screen to copper radials?


Someone said there was copper plated aluminum wire.
One would think there exists somewhere an adapter
device for going from copper to aluminum. Wouldn't
the TV cable company have such an adapter?
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