[Antennas] Problem Installation

Thu Jul 27 15:46:45 EDT 2006

A great answer Tony.
What I'm using now is a 260 foot total length dipole (130 on a side) but it 
is up only 50 feet. It is over salt water marsh. The tower is on a high 
spot in the middle. The ends are supported by ten foot wooden masts stuck 
in the marsh mud. I left the antenna as high as possible by using lots of 
rope at the end and making the angle more obtuse.
This was the best I could do with the "no wire" over the driveway rule and 
the lack of supports (trees) as the area behind the tower is a salt marsh 
(tidal) which floods at high tide.
What I thought to do was ground the far end of the wire by the base of the 
tower and feed the antenna backwards at the end.
This would always produce a voltage minimum at the far end and a current 
maximum (grounded antenna) so the tower would always be high current and 
produce radiation - and it is vertical.
The problem is an efficient ground at the other end!
Great answer Tony!!
73
DR 