[Antennas] Affect of trees on quarter wave wire antenna.

Wed Jul 28 16:46:42 EDT 2010

You need another equal length of wire attached to the braid of the coax at 
this elevated feedpoint. Or..perhaps because of the space limitation you 
could run the wire vertically from the ground going up the 24 feet, then bend 
to go horizontal. The coax center conductor would be attached at ground 
level to this vertical wire. Then attach a bunch of wires laying on the ground 
to the shield of the coax. The more wires the better fanning out around 
the feedpoint. The longer each wire laying on the ground the better but more 
wires is better than a few long wires on the ground. These wires don't have 
to be of any particular length. Right now you basically have only half of 
an antenna.

Richard