HF Vertical in a septic leach field
 

"KC8QJP" wrote in message
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"Steve Stone" wrote in message
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I have a 5 band Hustler vertical.

Available install space in my backyard is an area adjacent to my septic
system leach field.

I really don't want to place the antenna in the middle of the leach field
and risk hitting an outflow pipe.
If I put it just outside of the reach of the outflow pipes the ground is
still relatively moist due to natural run off and the leach field.

So will this leach field moisture enhance or inhibit the verticals
performance due to soil conductivity.. or none of the above if the
antenna is installed as indicated in the Hustler installation manual. (2
radials per band using insulated copper wire, 4 foot
metal mast pounded directly into the ground, no concrete, no wood).

There is also a 4 foot high chain link fence surrounding my backyard,
300' x 150', one side about 25 feet from the potential install location.
No trees or shrubs closer than 15 feet from the vertical mast.

Steve
N2UBP




we run the superskyhook sloper on 11 meters, it SCREAMS!

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Isn't your old man none other than N8WWM MrBindwell the fatboy, and he's
having some sort of party here?

Lance & Lisa Adair
10431 Jackman Rd
Temperance, MI 48182-9629
(734) 854-2426




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There is a guy here in Tampa that cleans up with a Butternut mounted on a Chain Link Fence with NO other radials. yes, he is close to tampa bay, so that must help. But I say nothing makes a failure but a try. Use what you have, do the best you can do, just get on the air somehow.