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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:00:02
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From: "Rik Strobbe" <rik.strobbe@fys.kuleuven.ac.be>
Subject: Re: LF: Dipole antenna at LF
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Hi Larry,

interesting. Especially as some of us recently experienced that wet stuff
absorbs a lot of RF.
What frequencies were used at MF ?

73, Rik  ON7YD

At 09:31 18/01/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings Rik and Andy:
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>> Many years ago I did read somwhere an article about
>> horizontal dipoles used in the desert that were just laying on the sand.
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>I hope this relates, but we used to lay MF and HF antennas on the surface of
>the snow or even ice in the Canadian Arctic.  When we started it was a big
>deal to use some poles about 5 or 6 ft long to support the antennas, then we
>noticed it did not mater (when they fell down) so we just let the wire lay
>on the surface.
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>Larry
>VA3LK
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