Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26861 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 22:31:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO warrior-inbound.servers.plus.net) (212.159.14.227) by excalibur.plus.net with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 22:31:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 7782 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 22:31:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO post.thorcom.com) (212.172.148.70) by warrior with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 22:31:26 -0000 Received: from majordom by post.thorcom.com with local (Exim 3.16 #2) id 157PIC-0005hN-00 for rsgb_lf_group-outgoing@blacksheep.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 23:27:16 +0100 Received: from mail11.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.193.23]) by post.thorcom.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #2) id 157PIB-0005hI-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 23:27:15 +0100 Received: from modem-64.belegaer.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.137.64] helo=g3aqc) by mail11.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 157PHY-0004IH-00 for rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2001 23:26:37 +0100 Message-ID: <001201c0ee0e$938e4020$4089883e@g3aqc> From: "Laurie Mayhead" To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org Subject: LF: Re. Wire in the Air etc. Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:25:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: rsgb_lf_group@blacksheep.org X-Listname: rsgb_lf_group Sender: Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit

Hi John,

Thanks for listening, TX running now.

Re. Ant, you asked if improvement could be due to smaller loading coil. I dont think so ,total loss is 35ohms of which coil loss is about 5ohms, so reduction of 20% is only 1ohm not really significant. I belive the explanation is in the lossy capacitor which the ground represents, by spreading the current out over as much ground as possible these losses are reduced.(lots of lossy caps in parallel=a less lossy larger capacitor.)Point is it works. Of course some ground is more lossy than other ground I belive my Clay is very bad,perhaps on good ground this effect would not be so well marked.

You Ant. proposal seems good ,the 400 ft top will ensure almost linear current in the vert. section and since it covers a lot of ground should result in reasonably low ground loss,in fact it will probably be better than the Ant. I am currently using since the wire is in a straight line. Hope you see something tonight.

73s Laurie.