Salt Water Canal antenna question
 

Hi All,

I will be moving into a house with a salt water canal in the backyard.
The lot is about 100 feet wide on the canal with nothing but ceramic tile
surrounding a pool...NO open Ground just a few palm trees surrounded small
squares of mulch.....
I am looking for any ideas for an antenna....to cover 80-10 .....

Anybody have experience with salt water near by???

Thanks

Steve
KB8IPZ

Maybe a vertical antenna?? At least you should have a good ground
there. Here in the high desert, "ground" is something sometimes as
hard to find as a tree for antenna support.


On Sun, 4 Jul 2004 09:40:50 -0400, "Steve Brenner"
wrote:

Hi All,

I will be moving into a house with a salt water canal in the backyard.
The lot is about 100 feet wide on the canal with nothing but ceramic tile
surrounding a pool...NO open Ground just a few palm trees surrounded small
squares of mulch.....
I am looking for any ideas for an antenna....to cover 80-10 .....

Anybody have experience with salt water near by???

Thanks

Steve
KB8IPZ

Steve,
If the salt water isn't used as 'part' of the antenna system (ground for
a vertical, perhaps?), it isn't going to make a lot of difference, one way
or the other. Are the palm trees far enough apart, and are there enough
of them to put up a dipole?
'Doc

The lot is about 100' but the Palms run in a line of only about 60' Maybe I
can put up an additional support at the lot line and hang a dipole. Any
suggestions about the best multi band dipole????


"'Doc" wrote in message
...
Steve,
If the salt water isn't used as 'part' of the antenna system (ground
for
a vertical, perhaps?), it isn't going to make a lot of difference, one way
or the other. Are the palm trees far enough apart, and are there enough
of them to put up a dipole?
'Doc

Steve KB8IPZ wrote:
The lot is about 100' but the Palms run in a line of only about 60' Maybe I
can put up an additional support at the lot line and hang a dipole. Any
suggestions about the best multi band dipole????


If you can get 60 feet of horizontal space in the palms, consider
running a random length dipole, fed with ladder line, and use a tuner.
You can either just run 60 feet, or might want to let some extra wire
hang down at the ends to make it longer. I'd probably do the latter.


If you are afraid of ladder line, there are trapped dipoles that will
serve the purpose.


It will be pretty hard to define a "best" multi band dipole. But I
really do like the ladder line/tuner combination. And with auto tuners
like the MFJ, which will tune ladder line pretty nicely, they are the
way to go in my book

p.s. I use a manual tuner for mine, and even those aren't too bad. I
even contest with it.

- Mike KB3EIA -